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Halox6000
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Date/Time timezone formatting issue

Hello, 

When i upload a csv to power bi it completely changes my date time format. For example i have a time formatted as 2018-12-10T19:57:00.0000000Z but power bi changes it to 12/10/2018 7:57 PM+00:00. How do i get to maintain the original the zulu time format?

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mahoneypat
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Microsoft Employee

Two suggestions

1. Convert the column to type text (instead of datetimezone)

2. Let it store it as datetimezone, but then use a custom format string to display it as you like in your reports/measures.

 

Pat

 





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