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gghlyon
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Daylight saving malfunction with December release

Hi all,

 

Can't find this problem on the forum, please let me know if solved elsewhere.

 

We maintain a date table, pull through direct query to PowerBI.

 

As of the Dec release (automatic  update for me, and manual for a colleague so we saw both options) I noticed that an hour was lost on the 1st of October 2017 (daylight saving australia).  This has affected the month and the quarter measures (they all show up as 30/09/2017 11:00:00PM, instead of 1/10/2017 12:00;00AM, but fixes itself on Jan 2018.   Very strange, the SQL data checked and even the powerbi query editor shows the date table is fine.

 

 

 

 

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AngusB
Regular Visitor

Having this exact same issues with the April 2018 release.

The April 2018 date an hour is being added.

seems weird as april dates in other tables aren't affected.

I'm finding the same issue when the report is published to the web.

 

the fix seems to be to go to the computer date time settings and switch off automatically adjust for daylight savings.

when you refresh the report it seems to come good.

AngusB
Regular Visitor

Having this exact same issues with the April 2018 release.

The April 2018 date an hour is being added.

seems weird as april dates in other tables aren't affected.

I'm finding the way issue when the report is published to the web.

 

the fix seems to be to go to the computer date time settings and switch off automatically adjust for daylight saving.

cs_rob
Frequent Visitor

I'm surprised this hasn't been fixed yet. Because the April daylight savings effectively adds an hour to the date, I performed the following slightly lengthy workaround:

- Use of an hour column based on the date key

- Creating a calculated column to replace the previously used date key column:

  if hour = 1 then

    date - 1/24

  else date

 

More than happy to provide more details if the above explanation isn't helpful enough.

@v-sihou-msft any update on this as we are having the same problem and it's quite embarrassing? Thanks

 

Does anyone have updates on this issue? It is really annoying. Thanks.
AngusB
Regular Visitor

Having this exact same issues with the April 2018 release.

The April date an hour is being added.

seems weird as april dates in other tables aren't affected.

I'm finding the way issue when the report is published to the web.

 

the fix seems to be to go to the computer date time settings and switch off automatically adjust for daylight savings.

cantoneye
Frequent Visitor

That's so frustrating! I've encountered the same issue. I'm afraid the only fix is to downgrade back to November version. That's what I did.
v-sihou-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

@gghlyon

 

I can't reproduce your issue. But you may use Power Query to transform Daylight Saving Time. Please refer to articles below: 

 

Solving DAX Time Zone Issue in Power BI

Daylight Saving Time And Time Zones In M

 

Regards,

 

Hi,

Thanks, it's not a normal timezone offset though.

 

Have tried to share a picture that simulates what i'm seeing below.  See how just the one wrong day affects the month and quarter.  Again, on the SQL data this is not happening, just when loading into powerbi desktop Dec version.

PowerBI date error.PNG

 

 

Guy

Hi gghylon,

 

Did you manage to find a solution to this? I've also encountered the same frustrating issue.

Glad to see I'm not going crazy!  Will see what happens with Jan update then, not really keen to uninstall the store version and rebuild with November.

Can we report this issue to Microsoft?

Do you know how?  If i go through desktop and follow links to report issue, it just brings me back here to the community pages.

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