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rafajammali
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Local Time date format

My date format has *3/14/2001 1:30:55 PM (G), whats that G refrence to ? is that the time Zone, if yes how did power bi know that and how to change it to a diffrent time zone.

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@rafajammali 

 

G = General date/time pattern

Power Bi uses the date/time and time zone on your device, usually it is auto setting, you can change the time zone in your PC setting. 

 

Paul Zheng

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@rafajammali 

 

G = General date/time pattern

Power Bi uses the date/time and time zone on your device, usually it is auto setting, you can change the time zone in your PC setting. 

 

Paul Zheng

amitchandak
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Seems like general time format

please refer for more details

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/standard-date-and-time-format-strings.

 

Also, just check that has power bi; got it like DateTime or text. Sometimes it shows like datetime but datatype is text.

 

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