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Need help converting Date/Time timestamp to different timezone
Hello all,
I have a "TimeStamp" column of datatype Time/Date that I want to offset by 2 hours from UTC to my local time zone. It needs to be Time/Date because I use it for incremental refresh, which only accepts this datatype.
I have created a new custom column called TimeStampLocal = DateTime.AddZone( [TimeStamp], 2 ) which contains the correct time, but it is of datatype Any, which isn't recognized as a date in my visuals.
If I change the datatype of TimeStampLocal to Date/Time or Date/Time/Timezone in power query, the timezone does not show in the table after saving and closing the query editor.
As soon as I am back in the Power BI desktop editor, the column has switched back to Date/Time, and in the column tool I can't change it to Date/Time/Timezone datatype.
What is going on, is this a bug or am I doing it wrong? How can I make this work?
Thanks in advance, Mike
Not familiar with that function but it does to be different than I expected. Simple fix is just to add 2 hours to your datetime columns as follows
=[DateTimeColumn] + #duration(0,2,0,0)
If this works for you, please mark it as solution. Kudos are appreciated too. Please let me know if not.
Regards,
Pat
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Not familiar with that function but it does to be different than I expected. Simple fix is just to add 2 hours to your datetime columns as follows
=[DateTimeColumn] + #duration(0,2,0,0)
If this works for you, please mark it as solution. Kudos are appreciated too. Please let me know if not.
Regards,
Pat
This worked, thank you.
