UTC to local time of transaction

[Priscila_Gr]

Hello,

All transactions are recorded in UTC time and I would like to transform the dt_email_sent column into the local time, I created a table with all the time zones considering the country and merged with the main table where I have the date that the email was sent.

I would like help on which functions to use to add or subtract hours and thus arrive at the local time that the email was sent. I've tried converting to decimals but unfortunately it didn't work.

Any thoughts?

[johnt75 · Accepted solution]

You would need to split out the +/- sign into a separate column but then you could create a calculated column like

Local Time =
VAR OffsetSign =
    LOOKUPVALUE (
        'Time conversion'[Sign],
        'Time conversion'[Timezone], 'Table'[Timezone]
    )
VAR OffsetValue =
    LOOKUPVALUE (
        'Time conversion'[Offset value],
        'Time conversion'[Timezone], 'Table'[Timezone]
    )
VAR Result =
    IF (
        OffsetSign = "+",
        'Table'[UTC time] + TIMEVALUE ( OffsetValue ),
        'Table'[UTC time] - TIMEVALUE ( OffsetValue )
    )
RETURN
    Result

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @Priscila_Gr ,

You can refer to below steps to create columns to switch datetime.

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("dZAxDsMwDAP/krkuKMl2bL7DU438IOjW/zduhqaNAmgQQPBEsfdJISUgB0iTSgOhdwCPabn16fla14tl96Vg0lSYKqV+fUdo/kDhi5GbjvgvpiClqRLGKE6cI6IwzTTz+TNj+eG7iEzBNucUtpcSCXEjig3R1D9eOV7IZ6eW0Rmi0/XyBg==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [UTC = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"UTC", type datetimezone}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "LocalTimeZone", each if [UTC]<> null then DateTimeZone.SwitchZone([UTC], Number.From(DateTimeZone.ZoneHours(DateTimeZone.LocalNow()))) else null),
    #"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Custom", "Datetime", each DateTime.From([UTC])),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Added Custom1",{{"UTC", type text}, {"LocalTimeZone", type text}, {"Datetime", type datetime}})
in
    #"Changed Type1"

I have also found a helpful blog, please refer to it to see if it helps you.

Convert UTC date format into local time format in Power BI - Microsoft Dynamics CRM Community

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[johnt75 · Accepted solution]

You would need to split out the +/- sign into a separate column but then you could create a calculated column like

Local Time =
VAR OffsetSign =
    LOOKUPVALUE (
        'Time conversion'[Sign],
        'Time conversion'[Timezone], 'Table'[Timezone]
    )
VAR OffsetValue =
    LOOKUPVALUE (
        'Time conversion'[Offset value],
        'Time conversion'[Timezone], 'Table'[Timezone]
    )
VAR Result =
    IF (
        OffsetSign = "+",
        'Table'[UTC time] + TIMEVALUE ( OffsetValue ),
        'Table'[UTC time] - TIMEVALUE ( OffsetValue )
    )
RETURN
    Result