Need help converting Date/Time timestamp to different timezone

[h4tt3n]

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

[amitchandak]

@h4tt3n , refer if these can help

https://www.poweredsolutions.co/2019/10/21/handling-different-time-zones-in-power-bi-power-query/
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Convert-UTC-to-client-time-zones/td-p/56337
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1zquwmpnZE

[mahoneypat · Accepted solution]

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

[h4tt3n]

This worked, thank you.