Why my ER is taking wrong value of date.

Question

Hi all, 
 I am trying to take a date value from a DB(which I am writing in the Expression value below) and once I am inputting it in rule input it is changing my date value(Refer Value field):

Can anyone guide me what I am doing wrong, I need 03/10/22 as an output. 
 
 Thank you.

Gabriele Camilli · Accepted Answer

Hi, 
 If it's consistent just use 
 todate(
joinarray(
reverse(
split(ri!date,"-")
),
"/"
)
) 
 I guess that the DB column it's string so note that ri!date should be of type text

Mike Schmitt · Answer

The exact expression `2022-10-03` (note no quotation marks etc) will evaluate as a math operation, i.e. "2022 minus 10 minus 3", and return an integer value, which Appian will try to interpret as a date (and of course will be very wrong). 
 Note that if your DB columns are set to the "Date" data type, they will be displayed there as YYYY-MM-DD formatting, however this is just the display mode. Appian will actually receive a proper "date" data type when querying the data from the DB, which in Appian will display with the default Appian date formatting. There should be no need (assuming the date is stored in the DB as a date and not as text) to have to play with manually parsing the value back into a Date from a YYYY-MM-DD formatted text string.

Why my ER is taking wrong value of date.

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