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amiller5
Helper II
Helper II

Calculating the difference in days between two dates

I have a start date calculated as a measure and I am wanting to subtract it from "Today()" date. See image below, the first line item has a start date of 4/21/2022 and the Age (days) is 4,734 [Today's date is 6/1/2022). Not sure why it is so off?

Age (days) is a calculated column

amiller5_0-1654102247946.png

 

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Syk
Super User
Super User

Use datediff instead

DATEDIFF('table'[start date], today(), days) 

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Syk
Super User
Super User

There's a start of month function you might be able to use!
STARTOFMONTH function (DAX) - DAX | Microsoft Docs

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Syk
Super User
Super User

There's a start of month function you might be able to use!
STARTOFMONTH function (DAX) - DAX | Microsoft Docs

Ok - so I created this Date Key

amiller5_0-1656630164565.png

And I have the following formula: 

Age (Days) = DATEDIFF('Service 4 - Contract accts'[Start date],STARTOFMONTH('Date key'[Date]),DAY)
 
but now my days in the able for the example is (-)
amiller5_1-1656630399624.png

 

 

I was able to get the correct days to flow through by ONLY putting the month I am referencing in the Date key. Is there anyway to put all months in the key and point to the current month? to eliminate having to refresh that date every time?

 

abusen333
Frequent Visitor

you can do eather ways;
1- Using Date Diff Dax Function 
Age in days Measure =
DATEDIFF (
    MIN ( Mytable[Start Date] ),
    TODAY (),
    DAY
)
2- Normal Substraction
INT(

       MIN ( Mytable[Start Date] ) - Today()

)
 
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Syk
Super User
Super User

Use datediff instead

DATEDIFF('table'[start date], today(), days) 

Is there a calculation for an "as of" date? Similar to the equation you supplied above, instead of TODAY(), is there something to make it calculate off of as of first of current month?

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