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Problem with Time format

Hello everybody,

 

I am having real problems while managing hours. I have an Excel file with some columns with houer type. Whenever it goes over 24 hours, Power Query transforms it to a date / hours, but in the desktop I only got the rest of hours within a day. Power BI truncates the rest of days (whenever there are...). 

 

Anyway to solve this? I am getting really crazy with this. I really need a solution, this is for my daily work. Thanks a lot!!!

 

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ppm1
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

Please see this article for a good/flexible way to handle this.

Calculate and Format Durations in DAX – Hoosier BI

 

Pat

Microsoft Employee
lbendlin
Super User
Super User

Change the column type to numerical.  Multiply by 24 if you need hours and hour fractions insteadof the default day fractions.

Hi @lbendlin ,

 

Thanks a lot. I've tried it, but it does not work. Power BI does not make the conversion correctly. For example, I have 75:31:00 hours in Excel. When I get it in Power Query, I get 03/01/1900 3:31:00. Then I convert it to decimal number, and it shows "4.00" (days), when i should get "3.15" (APROX)...

seems to work for me.

 

 

let
    Source = #table({"Column1"},{{#duration(0,75,31,0)}}),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type number}})
in
    #"Changed Type1"

 

Can you post a sample Excel file?

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