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pborah
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How to force visuals in the service to display local time as opposed to UTC?

I have a card visual in a report in the service that displays current date and time using TODAY().

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In Power BI desktop this displays the local time correctly. However in the service it switches to UTC. I understand that PBI service is always on UTC time. What would be an appropriate way to handle this using DAX so that even on the service the time shown on that card visual is local time and not UTC? Thank you.

 

P.S. I'm not sure if I should have posted this question in the Service thread as opposed to Desktop. If this belongs in service, admins and moderators, please feel free to reassign. Thank you.

 

 

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pborah
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pborah
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this worked perfectly so long as the data connection through the gateway is setup.

 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/How-to-Get-Last-Refreshed-Date-in-local-DST-time-in-5-click...

amitchandak
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@pborah , refer to these setting for power bi service

https://support.helpshift.com/kb/article/how-do-i-set-my-timezone-in-power-bi/

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@amitchandak that is incorrect. 

Nathaniel_C
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Hi @pborah ,
You might look at this blog, I just saw this recently.
https://radacad.com/showing-current-time-and-latest-refresh-time-at-local-timezones-in-the-power-bi-... 

Let me know if you have any questions.

If this solves your issues, please mark it as the solution, so that others can find it easily. Kudos 👍are nice too.
Nathaniel





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