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Date Issue - BI Changing Date Value
I am having a date issue that I am unable to resolve so I thought I would reach out for help.
Background:
- Form - PowerApp
- Datasource - SharePoint List
- PowerBI - Desktop version
Basically I have a form setup with various date fields. The date from the form shows up accurately on the SharePoint list when submitted. Also, when I export the SharePoint list to Excel, everything works fine. Now for the issue. When I pull in the data to PowerBI (from SharePoint list), all my dates are showing up the day prior. Example 7/23 in the sharepoint list will show up as 7/22 in PowerBI.
I have went through all the transformations in the query editor / advanced editor. I can't seem to find anything that is converting the date. The field type in SharePoint is just a Date/Time field that is set to show date only.
I know there are some DAX commands I can probably use and create new columns to add 1 day, but I would rather the data just pull in correctly rather than have a several duplicate fields.
Any advice?
Thanks!
Hi denney103184 ,
In these threads, they talked about it for the following reasons:
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/SharePoint-date-differs-from-Power-BI-date/td-p/13856
One possible cause is :
dates in the summer were changing to the previous day because an hour was being taken off due to daylight saving
Solution:
set the imported column to data type timezone and create a new calculated column based on it with a data type date;
Another may be: ApiVersion
Solution : Change to ApiVersion14
You can also try the following:
1. Enter the Power query and select the date column.
2. Select the date columns, Right Click --Change Type - Using Locale.
3. Select in Data Type: Date and Set the Locale (in your case you can use English - United States).
This is the related document, you can view this content:
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Date-1-day-behind-source-date/td-p/1349057
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Import-sharepointlist-Wrong-date-offset-1-day/td-p/1135678
Best Regards,
Liu Yang
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Hi denney103184 ,
In these threads, they talked about it for the following reasons:
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/SharePoint-date-differs-from-Power-BI-date/td-p/13856
One possible cause is :
dates in the summer were changing to the previous day because an hour was being taken off due to daylight saving
Solution:
set the imported column to data type timezone and create a new calculated column based on it with a data type date;
Another may be: ApiVersion
Solution : Change to ApiVersion14
You can also try the following:
1. Enter the Power query and select the date column.
2. Select the date columns, Right Click --Change Type - Using Locale.
3. Select in Data Type: Date and Set the Locale (in your case you can use English - United States).
This is the related document, you can view this content:
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Date-1-day-behind-source-date/td-p/1349057
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Import-sharepointlist-Wrong-date-offset-1-day/td-p/1135678
Best Regards,
Liu Yang
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
All,
Thanks for the feedback on this topic. It helped steer me in the right direction. I did find that in the regional settings of SharePoint my timezone was different than PowerBI. I changed it to my actual time zone in SharePoint and that solved the issue. PowerBI is now bringing in the correct date.
