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5 years ago
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Datediff for duration

Team, I want to find duration in hours (upto 2 decimal places) from two datetime formatted cells. While i use datediff but it shows half negative and half postive integer values. i have attached the...
  • Jimmy801's avatar
    5 years ago

    Helllo Anonymous 

     

    if you need a solution in power query, add a new colunn and use this formula

    Number.Round(Duration.TotalHours([EndDateTime]-[BeginDateTime]), 2)

    Here the complete example

    let
        Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjLQMzTUMzJQMDSwMjFT0lEyMoUKGJhbGZorxcYCAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [BeginDateTime = _t, EndDateTime = _t]),
        #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"BeginDateTime", type datetime}, {"EndDateTime", type datetime}}, "de-DE"),
        #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Duration in hours", each Number.Round(Duration.TotalHours([EndDateTime]-[BeginDateTime]), 2), type number)
    in
        #"Added Custom"

    Copy paste this code to the advanced editor in a new blank query to see how the solution works.

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    Have fun

    Jimmy