Issues with Change type to Date

[Anonymous]

Hello Everyone - I was wondering if you could help me this issue. I have field with Date of Subcontract that comes Date/Time/Time Zone format, so I want to change it to Date format. But when I try to change it in Query edit,  for some reason it subtract a date.

For example 2/6/2017 12:00:00 AM, it become 2/5/2017. I don't know why exactly this happening, but I'll really apperciate it, if you could help me solve this problem. Thank you in advance.

[tarunsingla]

Check these links:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/datetimezone-removezone

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/datetimezone-switchzone

Regards,

Tarun

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[Greg_Deckler]

Since your dates are midnight and your timezone is -6 it is subtracting 6 hours and hence previous day.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the quick reply, is there a way to fix that or go around it by creating like a column with just date?

[v-cherch-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous

First way: Change the data type to 'Date' in Data view.

Second way: Add the custom column to remove the TimeZone.Then change the type to 'Date'.

=DateTimeZone.RemoveZone([date])

Regards,

Cherie