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Scottnap
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Date Math bug?

Confounded by this issue and hoping someone can help!  I'm having a problem with date math in a Power BI Measure.

I have a measure that calculates the difference (in days) between TODAY() and a Created date in a table column.  The Created Data is stored as Date/Time format, Short Date.

DATEDIFF_bug.png

Clearly 198 days have not elapsed between TODAY() (01/11/2023 at time of posting) and the created date (12/20/2022).  It should be 22 days.  The Measure calculation is this.

DSC_Measure.png

Oddly enough, I created another measure (DaysElapsed) as a sanity check, and used the same values and the caluclation worked fine!

DE_Measure.png

DE_Value.png

I've noticed the issue appears when I'm subtracting a date from last year but works fine when I'm subtracting a date from this year.  Stumped.

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sevenhills
Super User
Super User

Try this and see ... 

Days Since Created = ABS( DATEDIFF(TODAY(), SELECTEDVALUE(TableDateMathBug[Created]), DAY))

 

sevenhills_0-1673461576086.png

 

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Scottnap
Frequent Visitor

Thanks you for the quick response!  That worked!  

sevenhills
Super User
Super User

Try this and see ... 

Days Since Created = ABS( DATEDIFF(TODAY(), SELECTEDVALUE(TableDateMathBug[Created]), DAY))

 

sevenhills_0-1673461576086.png

 

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