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how to actually change the date and not just its appearance

i am tring to do a pivot table with month-year formatting, so i went ot custom and wrote 'mmm-year', visually all the cells looks good, but in the formula tab the days are still there, i tied copy pasting only values and still no luck

https://preview.redd.it/yqjhwuawsrtg1.png?width=164&format=png&auto=webp&s=134a10680cd9428dbadeaff051f4f608c30f82dc

and tis is what is shown in the formula, it is bad becuase i need all the dates in a pivot table but days mess this stuff, 10/jan/2026 is diffrent than 30 jan/2026 and i want them to be one

https://preview.redd.it/emvpgvawsrtg1.png?width=283&format=png&auto=webp&s=1042d4e752bca6735e1e1daf8b2d422af722998d

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