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How to do get today's date in US format while your locale is UK?

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How can I get today's date in US format when my locale is UK?

 

Thanks!

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Fowmy
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With the September 2021 Power BI Desktop update, you can now change the locale of the format function
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/format-function-dax

Today's Date = FORMAT( TODAY() , BLANK()  , "en-us" )

 

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@Fowmy  thanks but is it possible in Power Query?

Fowmy
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@Anonymous 

With the September 2021 Power BI Desktop update, you can now change the locale of the format function
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/format-function-dax

Today's Date = FORMAT( TODAY() , BLANK()  , "en-us" )

 

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