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Handle local time zone in Power BI service

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Curtis Ramirez on 03 Nov 2017 21:14:52

As of now, the reports that I create on desktop utilize a lot of time intelligence functions and relative date filters. This is completely fine so long as I view the report on the desktop. Once I publish the report up to the service and then utilize those visuals in dashboards I run into this issue. All of my time intelligence functions (TODAY & NOW) and relative date filters convert to UTC.

This issue causes my data to roll over to the next day 5 hours early which affects all of my subscriptions.

It would be absolutely fantastic if Power BI service could recognize local time zone or even if we could manually set our time zone so that these measure work correctly.

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Antti Pudas on 13 Dec 2021 11:56:44

RE: Handle local time zone in Power BI service

Note that when there are users from different timezones and also different local daylight saving practices, which impact the datetime.

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Alex Blake on 27 Nov 2021 02:29:25

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Yes, fix this already for crying out loud. (A scary thought just occurred to me: Perhaps no one at Microsoft is reading this thread... would explain why it's been taking forever. 4 years and counting... I guess there is no shame in taking one's sweet goddamn time, now is there!?)

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Álvaro Cárdenas Burgos on 23 Sep 2021 19:51:25

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i need this fix asap please

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Kelly Strader on 23 Sep 2021 00:39:42

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Please fix this. As other commenters have said, at 5pm Arizona time, my reports go blank because I'm filtering on the last day for my report.

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Christian Villegas on 25 Aug 2021 20:12:58

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We've created tables and functions to address this even to address data being pulled in from the Dataverse. There has to be a way to either read a cookie, ask the user as a preference or some other method to preserve this within the service instead of always forcing a workaround or forcing UTC time.

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Joshua Cortigiano on 14 Aug 2021 16:56:55

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Please fix this!

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Shaun Wilkinson on 06 Jul 2021 22:45:25

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Amazing this has not been corrected over the years.

The fact you can have different results in a report opening it in the PowerBI Desktop but then have it immediately be something different just by publishing it to the service is ridiculous really.

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EV on 27 May 2021 03:18:10

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This is painful issue.

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Hal Jones on 04 May 2021 14:46:51

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Please fix this. Important to IoT streaming workflow.

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Martin K on 21 Apr 2021 15:08:01

RE: Handle local time zone in Power BI service

Similar idea here: https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=f653dcc6-ca73-41e3-a210-4197114ac54a