POWER BI - DATEIFF IN CORRECT RESULTS

[shei7141]

Hi

I have two columns (startDateTime) and (EndDateTime) and I wanted to get the difference between two dates. My data format is as follows:

StartDateTime = 7/01/2011 3:31:00 PM

EndDateTime = 12/01/2011 8:44:00 AM

I created a column called differnce = DATEDIFF(File1[StartDateTime],File1[EndDateTime],HOUR)

I am getting a result = 3665

I changed the formula of difference to DATEDIFF(File1[StartDateTime],File1[EndDateTime],DAY)

than I am getting the result = 153

The answer should be 113hours (i.e. rounded down). I checked this in excel and it is giving me the right result.

Can someone please assist me with.

I am not sure what is going on. I even tried a simple subtraction but the result is still 153hours.

Thanks

Shei

[parry2k]

@shei7141 the reason for this is that it converted your raw dates into:

July 1st, 2011 and Dec 01st, 2011 whereas you are doing the calculation assuming following 

Jan 07th, 2011, and Jan 12th, 2011 and that's how the number of hours turned out to be 113.

You need to make your culture in change data type is set to dd/mm/yyyy rather mm/dd/yyyy

and that's the underline issue.

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[Ashish_Mathur]

Hi,

Between January 1, 2011 and December 1, 2022 there are 153 days.  What is the problem?