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Virtual_Ames
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10 years ago
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Easy consistent Last Refresh Time (your local time zone) solution - no matter how refreshed

If you want to make sure your viewers know how fresh the data in a report is - you may want to have a "Last Refreshed" tile showing.  The challenge is - if you publish from your desktop, you get last...
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    Eric_Zhang
    10 years ago

    Virtual_Ames

     

    Thanks for your sharing. That's a awesome idea to indicate a precise refresh time. :)

     

    Just some tips, no need to import the web as a source, the Power Query,also known as "M", has a "DateTimeZone.UtcNow()", you can get UTC time with that function and tweak different timezones based on UTC.

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Eric_Zhang
Microsoft Employee
10 years ago

Virtual_Ames

 

Thanks for your sharing. That's a awesome idea to indicate a precise refresh time. :)

 

Just some tips, no need to import the web as a source, the Power Query,also known as "M", has a "DateTimeZone.UtcNow()", you can get UTC time with that function and tweak different timezones based on UTC.

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pkoetzing
Advocate III
6 years ago

Switching timezones in M-language has a very limited functionallity, as you can switch by a given number of hours only. But this doesn't help when you're located in a daylight savings regime. Pulling the proper timestamp from an external API is unfortunately still the only working solution. I'd recommend using worldtimeapi.org and e.g. the following script:

let
    Source = Json.Document(
        Web.Contents("http://worldtimeapi.org/api/timezone/Europe/Berlin")),
    #"Converted to Table" = Record.ToTable(Source),
    #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(
        #"Converted to Table", each ([Name] = "datetime")),
    #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Filtered Rows",{"Name"}),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(
        #"Removed Columns",{{"Value", type datetimezone}}),
    #"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(
        #"Changed Type",{{"Value", "Europe/Berlin"}})
in
    #"Renamed Columns"