# Date

When you are working on a dataset to create a dashboard, you might want to have date in your dataset that you want to convert/extract/compute. YouPrep allows to do it with **the following steps related to date operations**:

* [Convert text to date](/data-management-in-datahub/datasets-in-toucan/preparing-data/overview-of-youprep-tm/date/convert-text-to-date.md)
* [Convert date to text](/data-management-in-datahub/datasets-in-toucan/preparing-data/overview-of-youprep-tm/date/convert-date-to-text.md)
* [Extract date information](/data-management-in-datahub/datasets-in-toucan/preparing-data/overview-of-youprep-tm/date/extract-date-information.md)
* [Add missing dates](/data-management-in-datahub/datasets-in-toucan/preparing-data/overview-of-youprep-tm/date/add-missing-dates.md)
* [Compute duration](/data-management-in-datahub/datasets-in-toucan/preparing-data/overview-of-youprep-tm/date/compute-duration.md)
* [Normalize date granularity](/data-management-in-datahub/datasets-in-toucan/preparing-data/overview-of-youprep-tm/date.md)


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