Power BI Embedded DateTime Json filter translates to UTC+10

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I have imported some date-times from SQL Server e.g.

2016-12-07 00:00:00.000
2016-06-08 00:00:00.000
2016-01-20 00:00:00.000

The import works fine and in Power BI Desktop/service I can see that the data is unmodified.

I have embedded this report into an MVC app and I pass along a filter constructed as so

[{
$schema:"http://powerbi.com/product/schema#advanced",
target:{table:"ReportingClientActivityReport",column:"InvoiceDate"},
logicalOperator:"And",
conditions:
[{operator:"LessThanOrEqual",value:"2017-10-22 00:00:00Z"},
{operator:"GreaterThanOrEqual",value:"2017-10-16 00:00:00Z"}]
}]

I put this filter into an embedded iframe and then pass it along to Power BI and at some point power BI has seen fit to translate my filter to UTC+10 (I get 2017-10-22 10:00:00Z and 2017-10-16 10:00:00Z) This is most likely because the server that's embedding the report is in Brisbane (UTC+10)

Is there a way I can get power BI to recognise my date-time as having already been translated to timezone?

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[Eric_Zhang · Accepted solution]

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@speedyspeedstar wrote:

My data is imported from SQL with date/time data i.e.

2016-12-07 00:00:00.000
2016-06-08 00:00:00.000
2016-01-20 00:00:00.000

and Power BI Desktop and service interprets this correctly.

I embed the report into an MVC application application and I construct this filter :

[
{$schema:"http://powerbi.com/product/schema#advanced",
target {table:"ReportingClientActivityReport",column:"InvoiceDate"},
logicalOperator:"And",
conditions:
[{operator:"LessThanOrEqual",value:"2017-10-22 00:00:00Z"},
{operator:"GreaterThanOrEqual",value:"2017-10-16 00:00:00Z"}]}
]

I put this filter in the json object for the power BI embedded iframe but when my embedded report comes back it's filtered to UTC+10 (server is in Brisbane)

How do I communicate in the filter that I want this particular DateTime without offset

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@speedyspeedstar

The datetime format trailed with "Z" indicates a UTC format, based on my test, to get the server local datetime, you just remove the trailing "Z".

[
{$schema:"http://powerbi.com/product/schema#advanced",
target {table:"ReportingClientActivityReport",column:"InvoiceDate"},
logicalOperator:"And",
conditions:
[{operator:"LessThanOrEqual",value:"2017-10-22 00:00:00"},
{operator:"GreaterThanOrEqual",value:"2017-10-16 00:00:00"}]}
]

See my test without VS with trailing "Z"

[speedyspeedstar]

Awesome I'll give it a go tomorrow and let you know how it goes 🙂

edit : Works great! For C# devs with the same problem, you can use

        public static string ToPowerBIDate(this DateTime src)
        {
            return src.ToString("s");
        }

as an extension method to get local time, if you want UTC then just transform src with ToUniversalTime() and then ToString("u")