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Mo-PHAT
Helper I
Helper I

DateAdd does not work across year boundaries

Hi,

 

I have found that I cannot use a DateAdd to find a date outside of the current year.

 

Being the 31st Jan 2017 today, if I use (custom column)

 

DATEADD('Data'[Today].[Date],-3,month) It returns a blank value however

 

DATEADD('Data'[Today].[Date],-1,day) correctly returns yesterday.

 

Even DATEADD('Data'[Today].[Date],2,Year) returns a blank value.

 

Surely we should be able to dateadd across the boundary of the year.

 

Thanks

Kirsty

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v-haibl-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

@Mo-PHAT

 

You need to create a Calendar table which contains the full calendar date if you want to use DATEADD Function.

This blog should also be helpful to you.

 

DateAdd does not work across year boundaries_1.jpg

 

Best Regards,

Herbert

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elojero
Regular Visitor

 I do Agree. It is ridiculous.

v-haibl-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

@Mo-PHAT

 

You need to create a Calendar table which contains the full calendar date if you want to use DATEADD Function.

This blog should also be helpful to you.

 

DateAdd does not work across year boundaries_1.jpg

 

Best Regards,

Herbert

Thank you for helping me out.

 

It seems to me that this is pretty ridiculous. I really hope someone fixes this

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