Data Type Conversion Issue in API to Google Sheets Sync

Summary

The user is experiencing an issue where date values are being converted from string format to numeric format during the data sync from an API to Google Sheets. The specific example provided shows a date ‘2024-11-11’ being transformed into ‘45607’.


Question

Hello guys i am syncing data from api to google sheets, in the declared schema , the date column is declares as string, while syncing it is changing the value of my source from 2024-11-11 to 45607, what is the reason behind this , like this it is changing values for lot of source values , how can i avoid this , can anyone please reply to this



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2024-11-11 is exactly 45607 days after January 1, 1900. Just change format of cells to date and it should be fine.

2024-11-11 is exactly 45607 days after January 1, 1900. Just change format of cells to date and it should be fine.