1AM UTC to show as 8 PM St Louis and 11 AM Brisbane (AND why can't world be on same timezone....)

[frano72]

Hi,

I've seen a lot of posts about the formatting side of dates and a number about timezone switching etc.  I haven't been able to find a post exactly about my issue (maybe its really simple, and i'm missing something !)

I want to show a single row of data to two different people sitting at PC's in different parts of the world accessing the same report and for the date/time to show in their local time.

I have the column stored as a datetimezone type and I thought that there would be some relationship between the persons PC / browser / power bi service that would auto-convert the date.

Tell me you don't have to create 30 columns of time shifted data if you have 30 people in 30 different countries viewing the same data......

[v-yetao1-msft]

Hi @frano72 

Power BI Service now only supports UTC time, if you want to display the local time, you can create a custom column in Query Editor use DateTime.LocalNow() and #duration() function.

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

For example:

DateTime.LocalNow()+#duration(0,2,0,0)

You can also refer to the blog below to learn more about UTC in Power BI Service .

https://www.fourmoo.com/2017/10/03/power-bi-did-you-know-all-power-bi-services-servers-are-in-utc-no...

Best Regards

Community Support Team _ Ailsa Tao

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