How to change column datetimezone to a localtime column?

[Anonymous]

Hi community,

I have an issue on converting a column in datetimezone format to a localtime column on a report in a directquery mode in PBI Desktop with the 'DateTimeZone.ToLocal' formula, when i try to do this a message appears and I  have to delete the localtime column. Any idea?

[v-ljerr-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

As indicated in the message, 'DateTimeZone.ToLocal' function is not supported in DirectQuery mode currently.

In this scenario, I would suggest you to change the date time on the source side if possible, or you can use DAX to create a calculate column to manually change the date time to local. The formula below is for your reference.

Column = Table1[LocalTime] - TIME ( 6, 0, 0 ) --the UTC

Regards

[Anonymous]

Thank you for your comment, I´m going to use it. I think I have to do a work around because the report its going to be used in several countries with diferents UTCs. Now, I have another question, how can I get the local UTC in order to do the conversion time?