The sum of time is not showing correctly

[Anonymous]

Good day

I need help. I wrote a dax measure for calculating the total abseteesm time. The challenge i'm having is that when i display it is show less time where as i know that the total time should be a huge number.

E.g. instead of showing  1770:30:00 it displays 3:23:00 as the total time.

I don't know if it is a format or settings issue in power bi desktop.

[Nolock · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

first of all, Power BI doesn't support duration data type, just time. Therefore I don't think so it is a good idea to sum up time values. Convert your times into count of minutes, sum them up and convert them back.

Then formating with "HH:mm:ss" is also not a good idea because it just take the part of a day, not a total count of hours.

Calculate minutes (or even seconds if needed) of every time, sum it up and format the result as you need.

Sum of minutes formatted =
VAR sumOfMinutes =
    SUMX ( Table3; HOUR(Table3[Column1]) * 60 + MINUTE(Table3[Column1]) )
VAR totalHours = sumOfMinutes / 60
VAR minutes =
    MOD ( sumOfMinutes; 60 )
VAR formattedResult =
    FORMAT ( totalHours; 00 ) & ":"
        & FORMAT ( minutes; "00" )
RETURN
    formattedResult

[Greg_Deckler]

Tough to say without data or at least calculations. Please see this post regarding How to Get Your Question Answered Quickly: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/How-to-Get-Your-Question-Answered-Quickly/ba-p/38490

[Nolock · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

first of all, Power BI doesn't support duration data type, just time. Therefore I don't think so it is a good idea to sum up time values. Convert your times into count of minutes, sum them up and convert them back.

Then formating with "HH:mm:ss" is also not a good idea because it just take the part of a day, not a total count of hours.

Calculate minutes (or even seconds if needed) of every time, sum it up and format the result as you need.

Sum of minutes formatted =
VAR sumOfMinutes =
    SUMX ( Table3; HOUR(Table3[Column1]) * 60 + MINUTE(Table3[Column1]) )
VAR totalHours = sumOfMinutes / 60
VAR minutes =
    MOD ( sumOfMinutes; 60 )
VAR formattedResult =
    FORMAT ( totalHours; 00 ) & ":"
        & FORMAT ( minutes; "00" )
RETURN
    formattedResult

[Anonymous]

Can you help me to convert my entier value in to hh:mm:ss . right now i checked your variable and it worked and need to convert in to second 

[Anonymous]

Hi @Nolock,

Thank you so much for your help.

I have then decided to just display the sum of total hours as whole number.

[Nolock · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

if it is ok for you and your question has been answered, please mark the answer as a solution.