Custom date format is not working for me

I have a bunch of dates imported from another spread sheet. They look like this:
February 04, 2014 at 09:24AM
Numbers 3.2 sees this as Text, so I went about making a custom date format. It looks like this:
However, I cannot make Numbers see it as a date. It keeps saying it is a string. If I select the cell containing the date and set the format to "My Custom Format", nothing happens - at all.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Michael

Hi Michael,
The Custom format you designed will display a normal Dave and Time value in the way your import presents it. That's not what you want though.
To comvert the imported format to a regular Numbers format, use a conversion expression in a new column.
Assuming your Imported Date is in Column B, Insert a Column and use this expression:
=DATEVALUE(LEFT(B, LEN(B)−11))+TIMEVALUE(RIGHT(B, 7)
Format your new column to the way you want to see Date/Time in your document.
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