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Power BI Service Change UTC Default
Greetings to All,
I understand we can set the published date/time setting to the local time zone in Desktop. However, it makes little sense to me the same functionality can't be extended to a report when published to the PBI Service. At the absolute minimum, extend the option to display the time for the area in which the user reviews the report. Being a Type-A personality, this inconsistently drives me insane 🙂
Thank you for reading my rant!
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Wait until you realize that the Power BI Semantic Models don't have any idea what a Timezone is. They asume their DateTime values are all in UTC, and then do the funky time zone math based on the user's browser's locale.
Hi Knox_DataMan,
Thanks for reaching out to the Microsoft fabric community forum.
It looks like you are facing issue with discrepancy in the timezone in PowerBi Desktop and Service. You can go to the below mentioned link and submit your idea for making a change in available timezone option.
I would also take a moment to thank lbendlin, for actively participating in the community forum and for the solutions you’ve been sharing in the community forum. Your contributions make a real difference.
If I misunderstand your needs or you still have problems on it, please feel free to let us know.
Best Regards,
Hammad.
Community Support TeamIf this post helps then please mark it as a solution, so that other members find it more quickly.
Thank you.
Hi Knox_DataMan,
As we haven’t heard back from you, so just following up to our previous message. I'd like to confirm if you've successfully resolved this issue or if you need further help.
If yes, you are welcome to share your workaround and mark it as a solution so that other users can benefit as well. If you find a reply particularly helpful to you, you can also mark it as a solution.
If you still have any questions or need more support, please feel free to let us know. We are more than happy to continue to help you.
Thank you for your patience and look forward to hearing from you.Is there a solution to this issue? To my knowledge, my comment is best considered a future enhancement request given the PBI service does not have the requested functionality.
