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saunders
Helper II
9 years ago
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Date format - Desktop vs. Service

Hi all,   I have dates formatted as dd/mm/yyyy in Desktop but when I publish to the service the format get changed to mm/dd/yyyy.  How can I force the service to respect my Australian date format a...
  • irmat's avatar
    irmat
    9 years ago

    saunders

    Hi,

    I had the same issue by using SSAS. I noticed that in SSAS the data on the data format on the date column was set to either General or short date. Setting the data format to dd/MM/yyyy fixed the issue.

    Hope this helps.

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v-sihou-msft
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

saunders

 

In Power BI Desktop, it takes the date format of local machine.

 



 

However, I can't reproduce your issue. When I publish a report with "d/MM/yyyy" date format onto Power BI Service, it will keeps same format.

 

 

Can you republish your .pbix again to see if it works properlly?

 

Regards,

  • saunders's avatar
    saunders
    Helper II
    9 years ago

    Hi Simon, thanks for your reply.  I've investigated this more and it seems that, when there is a live connection to Analysis Services or when there is DirectQuery connection to SQL Server, PowerBI displays the US format, not the local format.

     

    Is there anyone else who is experiencing this?

     

    Thanks!

     

    Analysis Service - Import (correct)

     

     

    Analysis Service - Live Connection (incorrect)

     

     

     

    SQL Server - DirectQuery (incorrect)

     

     

     

    • irmat's avatar
      irmat
      Advocate II
      9 years ago

      saunders

      Hi,

      I had the same issue by using SSAS. I noticed that in SSAS the data on the data format on the date column was set to either General or short date. Setting the data format to dd/MM/yyyy fixed the issue.

      Hope this helps.

      • saunders's avatar
        saunders
        Helper II
        9 years ago

        Hey, thanks for the note, that fixed it.