DateTimeZone.UtcNow() not working properly in Power BI Service

[danextian]

I have a report that is scheduled to refresh once daily and I need to show the users when the report's dataset was last refreshed.

I understand that refreshing a query via service with a DateTime.LocalNow() formula will return the server's timezone instead of the report author's/dataset owner's. Instead, I'm using DateTimeZone.UtcNow() then convert it to my timezone ( +8 ) using DateTimeZone.SwitchZone.  Like DateTime.LocalNow(),  DateTimeZone.UtcNow() works fine when refreshed via desktop but is showing a time 8 hours late than than my current time when refreshed in the service. For example, I refreshed the data set 12 noon my time but the report is showing 4 am instead. 

Please let me know what I am missing. 

[v-chuncz-msft · Accepted solution]

@danextian,

Power BI service shows the current date and time in UTC. To solve this issue, you may try the following ways:

1. Create a measure := Now() + timezoneHours / 24
2. Create Custom Column in Query Editor: Formula= DateTimeZone.SwitchZone(DateTimeZone.LocalNow(),timezoneHours,0)

[danextian]

 DateTimeZone.SwitchZone(DateTimeZone.LocalNow(),timezoneHours,0) works. Thanks for this. 

By the way, would you know what timeonze DateTimeZone.UtcNow() is using?