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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.

    • LizHackett's avatar
      LizHackett
      Regular Visitor
      9 years ago

      Hi irmat,

      I had the same problem as saunders (in Eastern Australia as well) and I've changed my date format under Windows Region settings to the long format dd/mm/yyyy, but still having the same issue.

      Am I changing the date format in the wrong place?  If so, where should I be changing it?

       

      In Query editor I changed the type to Date (as it comes through as text via a web link to a dataset from Blackbaud CRM) and getting an error on those dates in which the day is above 12. 

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

      Thanks!

      • irmat's avatar
        irmat
        Advocate II
        9 years ago

        Hi LizHackett

        Have you maybe tried the below

        or changing it to English (Australia)? You will have to restart Power BI Desktop after this change.

         

         

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      7 years ago

      Thanks for the info. Its solved same issue we had in our project :-)