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Duration wrongly converted to Date-Time type
you can convert them within excel to general format and then copy paste them into Power BI
PowerBI does not currently support milliseconds in date time datatype. I solved the problems like follow:
convert the excel doc to general, load it into PowerBI, and multiply the value by 86400 to get the total number of seconds.
in the Query Editor - if I use the format
hh:mm:ss.000
in Enter Data I can change the data type to duration and only AFTER that to number
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjCwMjC0MjTUMzQxUIrVgQkYmOpZWiALGBrrGZqhqDDRMzRAETDTMwEJxAIA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type duration}}),
#"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Changed Type",{{"Column1", type number}})
in
#"Changed Type1"
but if I import the same from Excel I cannot convert to duration, only to number but it adds the 1 to the value for some reason
does it work the same for you?
PowerBI does not currently support milliseconds in date time datatype. I solved the problems like follow:
convert the excel doc to general, load it into PowerBI, and multiply the value by 86400 to get the total number of seconds.