Getting error in PowerFx formula to cancluate difference in 2 dates

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I am trying to calculate difference between 2 date fields to calculate number of years, no of days and hours. For this I have created a field with data type formula and used below formula:

Concatenate(DateDiff('Today Date',Text(Birthday,DateTimeFormat.LongDateTime24), TimeUnit.Years),/ Y /, DateDiff('Today Date',Birthday,TimeUnit.Days), / D /, DateDiff('Today Date',Birthday, TimeUnit.Hours)/60, / H /)

But I am getting an error in formula as: /Use the Text function to convert numbers to text. Include a format in the second argument, which cannot include a thousands or decimal separator in formula columns./ even after using the text function as mentioned in the documentation.

Can anyone help me in correcting this formula?

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Dengliang Li Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi,

That is an indication that you need to add the second parameter of the Text function.
The second parameter is used to determine the format in which the number will be displayed.

Text function - Power Platform | Microsoft Learn

This is my PowerFx column that shows the difference between two date fields.

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Dengliang Li

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rohitK264 10 on at

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Hi Dengliang Li,

Thanks for your answer. It solved the error.

But the issue I am facing now is it is calculating number of days between those 2 dates like 24Years10142Days. What I want is I want to display how many days are past above 24 years like 24Years2Days or 24Years350Days likewise.
Is is possible through this expression ?

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Hi,

You can use the Mod function to get the number of days remaining after dividing the total number of days by 365.
Mod function - Power Platform | Microsoft Learn

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Dengliang Li

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rohitK264 10 on at

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Hi Dengliang Li,

Thanks a bunch.

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