Over 24 hour extraction from YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone. I am quite new to the Power BI and all the DAX things. But here is the problem. I am taking data to Power BI query from an excel file where one collumn is formated in [h]:mm:ss format to get time formation of more than 24 hours as You can see in the example.

But when this data is inserted into Power Query I get these kind of values,
For example 43:00:00 hours are converted into 1900-01-01 19:00:00, same are for the others as well. Example attached.
My question is what is the best way to get the real time, probably in duration format where I can get the needed time in format like 43:00:00 or even in decimal numbers if it is possible. Can I transform the data in Power Query or I need some kind of formula in new calculated column? Big thanks in advance.

[Greg_Deckler · Accepted solution]

You can bring it in as text and then I would recommend these two links:

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Aggregating-Duration-Time/ba-p/22486

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Quick-Measures-Gallery/Chelsie-Eiden-s-Duration/td-p/793639

[Icey · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Power BI doesn't support Duration data type for time over 24 hours.

One workaround, you can transform your time data to 'Second'.

The complete code is as follows:

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjKxMjCwMjBUitUBcoytTC2BSCk2FgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type text}}),
    #"Duplicated Column" = Table.DuplicateColumn(#"Changed Type", "Column1", "Column1 - Copy"),
    #"Split Column by Delimiter" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Duplicated Column", "Column1 - Copy", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter(":", QuoteStyle.Csv), {"Column1 - Copy.1", "Column1 - Copy.2", "Column1 - Copy.3"}),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Delimiter",{{"Column1 - Copy.1", Int64.Type}, {"Column1 - Copy.2", Int64.Type}, {"Column1 - Copy.3", Int64.Type}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type1", "Second", each [#"Column1 - Copy.1"]*3600+[#"Column1 - Copy.2"]*60+[#"Column1 - Copy.3"]),
    #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Column1 - Copy.1", "Column1 - Copy.2", "Column1 - Copy.3"})
in
    #"Removed Columns"

Best Regards,

Icey

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[Anonymous]

I have also found a solution which works for me as well. I am using a DATEDIFF formula to get decimal numbers. So for example if the column is named "TIME" which I want to convert to decimal number, the formula looks like this:

=datediff(format("1899-12-31 00:00:00"; "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss");Table_name'[TIME]; minute)/60

Using this formula I am getting those hours over 24:00:00 converted into decimal numbers, which also fits me. 

[Greg_Deckler · Accepted solution]

You can bring it in as text and then I would recommend these two links:

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Aggregating-Duration-Time/ba-p/22486

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Quick-Measures-Gallery/Chelsie-Eiden-s-Duration/td-p/793639