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Help, how to avoid wrong formatting of time data?
Hi Giuseppe_Aino,
Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft fabric community forum.
The reason you are seeing something like "30 Dec 08:00" instead of just "08:00" is because Power BI sometimes auto-converts time values especially text format like "08:00" into full datetime format when used on chart axes. When this happens, it adds a default date like 30 Dec, even if your original data has only time.
To avoid this:Change the X-axis to “Categorical” in the visual settings. This prevents Power BI from converting text to datetime. Make sure [adetdate_short_10min] is set as "Text" type in the model view not datetime
.Alternatively, if you change the column type to “Time” in Power Query, Power BI will treat it as proper time and display only the time without adding any date. This also works well if you plan to use it on time-based visuals.
If this solution worked for you, kindly mark it as Accept as Solution and feel free to give a Kudos, it would be much appreciated.
Best Regards,
Harshitha.
Try this ...
In Power Querychange the time column to a Time datatype
Then produce your report
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Thank you for your help but changing the field type using Power Query doesn't solve the problem.
Thanks anyway because I didn't know it was possible to do it.
PS
Your attempt to reproduce my problem doesn't work simply because you put too much data on the x-axis, I only have one data point (if I had even one more it would have represented in the correct "hh:mm" format).