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AW31
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6 years ago
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Convert Date Column from UTC to Central Time

I am trying to add a date column in Power Query that takes the current date column coming in from DirectQuery (comes in on UTC time) and changes it to Central Time (-5 hours from UTC). I searched sim...
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    v-lili6-msft
    6 years ago

    hi, AW31 

    For your case, I would suggest you create a new calculated column in power bi by DAX as below:

    Central Time = 'Table'[Post Time]- TIME(5,0,0)
    Regards,
    Lin
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6 years ago

hi, AW31 

For your case, I would suggest you create a new calculated column in power bi by DAX as below:

Central Time = 'Table'[Post Time]- TIME(5,0,0)
Regards,
Lin
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6 years ago

I can do this in Power BI as a field, but can it be done in Power Query? Basically I'd like to have it as a column there so that it can be used as a slicer with less loading time. As only a created column in the fields section, it is taking longer to populate every row of data because of the calcuation.