Hi, I've a column with fixed time which begins from 2000-01-01 00:00:00If we find 2000-01-02 03:10:10 in that column it means 27h, 10 min, 10 sec in duration. How can I calculate and get it as result? Have a great day

hi Kratchie not sure about your ultimate goal, try this:Column = VAR _d = TRUNC( [Duration]-DATE(2000,1,1))VAR _hms = FORMAT((([Duration]-DATE(2000,1,1))-_d),"HH:MM:SS")RETURN _d &" Days " &_hms I tried and it worked like this:

Calculate duration from fixed date/time | Microsoft Fabric Community

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ValtteriN
Community Champion
3 years ago
Hi,

Here is one way to do this:

Measure = var _mindate =CALCULATE(MIN('Table (2)'[Column1]),ALL('Table (2)'[Column1]))

var _h = DATEDIFF(_mindate,MAX('Table (2)'[Column1]),HOUR)

var _m = MINUTE(MAX('Table (2)'[Column1]))

var _s = SECOND(MAX('Table (2)'[Column1]))

return

_h & "h " & _m &"m " & _s &"s"

end result:

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- Kratchie
  Frequent Visitor
  3 years ago
  Hi ValtteriN,
  
  When I created a new visual table and added only DURATION column with your script it worked like a charm. BUT when i'm adding more columns it stopped to work by any reason. Seems that only timestamps with seconds still works partly (only hours + seconds), but when it's whole hour. It doesnt work?!
  - ValtteriN
    Community Champion
    3 years ago
    Kratchie hmm,
    
    That seems quite weird. The first things that come to my mind are te following:
    
    1. Are there some other dimension information or slicers affecting the visual?
    2. Is the data format similar in both your example and the data in question
    
    When I tried to re-create this the formula worked well even with whole hours and dates across different months:
FreemanZ
Super User
3 years ago
Hi Kratchie

try to create a column with this:
Column = FORMAT([Duration]-DATE(2000,1,1),"HH:MM:SS")

i tried and it worked like this:
- Kratchie
  Frequent Visitor
  3 years ago
  Hi FreemanZ
  
  Your script works perfectly with hours only. When it's more than 24 hours like 1 day + 6 hour it only shows 6:00
  - FreemanZ
    Super User
    3 years ago
    hi Kratchie
    not sure about your ultimate goal, try this:
    Column =
    VAR _d = TRUNC( [Duration]-DATE(2000,1,1))
    VAR _hms = FORMAT((([Duration]-DATE(2000,1,1))-_d),"HH:MM:SS")
    RETURN _d &" Days " &_hms
    
    I tried and it worked like this:
ppm1
Solution Sage
3 years ago
I assume you are later going to aggregate your durations in a measure, so please see this article for a good way to handle durations as decimals (in days) so you can easily do math and use them in visuals, but then display them as hh:mm, etc. when needed.
Calculate and Format Durations in DAX – Hoosier BI
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- Kratchie
  Frequent Visitor
  3 years ago
  Hi ppm1,
  
  This I have done before without any problem when it's two columns with both start/end date+time (split it into 4 columns (start&date, end&date, start&time, end&time) but now I need to get duration from fixed timestamps as I wrote above which isnt that easy. I have googled for different solutions but couldn't find any.