Difference between date calculation value in Desktop v Report Service

[Arranafc19]

Hi

Has anybody been having any issues lately relating to a difference in time between the Power Bi Service and the desktop ?

I have a dax measure which is 

Date of Last Refresh = NOW()  which I am using to show the last refresh on a direct query.

When I view this in desktop I get this 

However when I view the same measure in the service I get this :

There is an hour in the difference an I believe this started happening when the time zone changed here from UTC  to UTC + 1.

Anyone have any idea how I can resolve this ?

[v-stephen-msft]

Hi @Arranafc19 ,

For Date column, it will always show UTC time on Power BI Service, you can create a custom column and use DataTimeZone functions to set time zone. For more details, please refer to articles below:

Solving DAX Time Zone Issue in Power BI

Daylight Saving Time And Time Zones In M

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

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@Arranafc19 

Power BI Service generally uses UTC time. Since you are using NOW() in your calculation, when the dataset is refreshed in service, it will take the UTC time, which could be different from the datetime you see in desktop which depends on the local system datetime.

If you want to see the same datetime as Power BI service, you can play with UTCNOW() function in your calculations.

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