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Skemaz
Advocate II
8 years ago
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Problem with Regional Settings

Hi If you check out the 2 screenshots below, the one at the top is what I see in www.powerbi.com and the one below that is what I see in the Desktop Power BI. So when in the Desktop, I see 3/09/201...
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  • v-caliao-msft's avatar
    v-caliao-msft
    8 years ago

    Skemaz,

     

    Please format your date by using the DAX.
    Column 2 = FORMAT(Sheet1[Date],"D/MM/YYYY")

    And then publish it to Power BI services to check if the date format change or not.

     

    Regards,

    Charlie Liao

Skemaz's avatar
Skemaz
Advocate II
8 years ago

Hi Phil

Thanks for assisting, however the solution you refered me to doesn't seem to make a difference.

These are the steps I took (see screen-shots below).

(1) I checked and my powerbi.com settings and it was already set to "Default".

(2) In Firefox (checked in Edge as well), I removed English US leaving just English.

(3) I restarted Firefox and logged ina again but I still see the US date format.

I appreciate your assistance.

Cheers, Mark.

 

 

  • Phil_Seamark's avatar
    Phil_Seamark
    Microsoft Employee
    8 years ago

    Hi Skemaz

     

    I'm in New Zealand so would have the same problem.  But when I publish to the web service the date ranges are in a format we would prefer (dd/mm/yyyy).

     

    I'm using Explorer and Chrome

    • Skemaz's avatar
      Skemaz
      Advocate II
      8 years ago

      Hi Phil

      I'm in Bali and my Regional Settings (see below) are set to Australia and my users are in South Africa - so we all use dd/mm/yy format.

      Users in SA, Bali and Australia all report seeing mm/dd/yy.

      It's got me stumped becuase it looks great until I publish. 

      Thanks, Mark.

       

       

    • Skemaz's avatar
      Skemaz
      Advocate II
      8 years ago

      Hi

      I'm still tryig to find a solution (see my latest update.

      Any assistance will be appreciated.

      Thanks, Mark.

      • v-caliao-msft's avatar
        v-caliao-msft
        Microsoft Employee
        8 years ago

        Skemaz,

         

        Please format your date by using the DAX.
        Column 2 = FORMAT(Sheet1[Date],"D/MM/YYYY")

        And then publish it to Power BI services to check if the date format change or not.

         

        Regards,

        Charlie Liao

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    2 years ago

    It worked for me. I had a similar problem, but with the units displayed on the Cards, they showed "Mil" instead of "K", it was a regional settings problems, thanks.