topic Re: The Time Zone Struggle is Real... in Report Server

The Time Zone Struggle is Real...

Deronhess — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 16:40:16 GMT

I have a report that I have written that simply counts the sales for today. The issue that I am having is that this report is using Power BI Report Server local (Eastern Time Zone) and a SQL Server in the same server rack set for the same Eastern Time Zone. The Total Orders is being calculated by "Total Orders = COUNT(SO_SalesOrderDetail[SalesOrderNo]) +0".

The issue is that everyday at 7:00PM EST the Total Orders resets to 0 as if a new day. I am sure that this has to do with UTC but I have nothing set for UTC. Both the Report Server and the SQL server are set to EST. I was hoping that the use of Report Server would just use the time zone of the server, but apparently it is using UTC as well and I am missing out on 5 hours of sales reporting everyday.

Any help will be appreciated. thanks.

Re: The Time Zone Struggle is Real...

Greg_Deckler — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 16:51:11 GMT

Deronhess - Have you checked this thread? Convert UTC to local time zone in DAX - Microsoft Power BI Community

Re: The Time Zone Struggle is Real...

Deronhess — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 17:43:57 GMT

Hi Greg_Deckler, I have seen that. The issue is that I do not have any time functions outside of a filter saying that the Order_Date is in this day. The issue is that something is using UTC as the base time/date and I am not sure why this would be the case using Report Server. I understand that using the cloud based version does that, but with local PBIRS and SQL Server I would think that it would just be using the server time zone.