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Bharani
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Find time duration between 2 dates (Datetime format)

Hi Experts - Am new to Power BI.. Hope u can crack my query in a min...

 

I need to calculate "Number of minutes" between 2 dates which is in Datetime format..Below date is an example..

 

3/11/2014  10:57:06 AM

 

i have 2 coulmns in my data as shown below.. Please help me in adding a new column in data which shows the difference between accept time & logtime from below screenshot.. it should show me in minutes..

 

For Eg, for the first one.. from below data it should show as 19 Mins

 

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v-piga-msft
Resident Rockstar
Resident Rockstar

Hi @Bharani,

 

You could try with the dax formula below to create the calculate column.

 

diff =
VAR tem = 'CountMinutes'[accepttime] - 'CountMinutes'[logtime]
RETURN
    HOUR ( tem ) * 60
        + MINUTE ( tem )

Then you will  get the output below.

 

Find time duration between 2 dates.PNG

 

Best Regards,

Cherry

Community Support Team _ Cherry Gao
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By the way, i get the error..

 

Capture.JPG

Hi @Bharani,

 

Have you solved your problem?

 

If you have solved, please always accept the replies making sense as solution to your question so that people who may have the same question can get the solution directly.

 

If you still need help, please feel free to ask.

 

Best Regards,

Cherry

Community Support Team _ Cherry Gao
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Hi @Bharani,

 

Do you create the calculated column with the fomula?

 

Could you show the detail error message? 

 

Best Regards,

Cherry

Community Support Team _ Cherry Gao
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Thanks!! Does it work if logtime and accepttime are on different days, months or years?

Johanno
Continued Contributor
Continued Contributor

Nice! However, that won't work when the logtime and accepttime are on different days, months or years?

Hi @Johanno @Bharani,

 

Try this formula below.

 

Time = 
VAR DIFF = 'CountMinutes'[accepttime] - 'CountMinutes'[logtime]
VAR NumOfMinutes = DIFF * 24
    * 60
VAR DAYS =
    IF ( DIFF >= 1, INT ( DIFF ), BLANK () )
VAR HOURS =
    INT ( ( DIFF - DAYS ) * 24 )
VAR MINUTES = NumOfMinutes
    - ( DAYS * 24
    * 60 )
    - ( HOURS * 60 ) 
RETURN
    DAYS*24*60+HOURS*60+MINUTES

Here is the output.

 

Capture.PNG

 

Best  Regards,

Cherry

Community Support Team _ Cherry Gao
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Johanno
Continued Contributor
Continued Contributor

Hi, an ugly solution could be as a measure where I called my table CountMinutes:

CountMinutes = SUMX(CountMinutes;
YEAR(CountMinutes[accepttime])*1440*365+MONTH(CountMinutes[accepttime])*1440*30+DAY(CountMinutes[accepttime])*1440+HOUR(CountMinutes[accepttime])*60+MINUTE(CountMinutes[accepttime])
-YEAR(CountMinutes[logtime])*1440*365-MONTH(CountMinutes[logtime])*1440*30-DAY(CountMinutes[logtime])*1440-HOUR(CountMinutes[logtime])*60-MINUTE(CountMinutes[logtime]))

Someone will probably give us a more sophisticated solution. Smiley Very Happy

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