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Report Visuals with Stale Data?
Reports don't update. Datasets update. If you have a report open while its underlying dataset updates (refreshes) then that change will not reflect in the report. You will have to reload the report (F5) to see the change.
Similarly, some browsers are trying to "help" and cache some of the information. This may also prevent some of your visuals to refresh.
Now, if you have closed and reopened your browser, and you still see that behavior - then that might be reason to worry. Can you be sure that the data has actually updated in your data source?
Haha yes, you got me on a technicality - I should have said the dataset, not the report.
I think this however is a timezone issue. Some of my logic I had accidently used LocalNow() instead of UtcNow(). I expect the PowerBI service uses UTC as it's refresh timezone? so when it was doing a daily refresh, "today" for us at 9am, is still "yesterday" for UTC.
I have fixed this and was going to monitor until tomorrow to sure this was the correct fix.
Thanks for the info/reply lbendlin 🙂
Correct, the Power BI service runs on UTC. However, the dataset refresh schedule dialog allows you to specify a different timezone.
I've set the refresh schedule to be my timezone, but localNow() ignores the timezone, possibly because it's DateTime.localNow() rather than the DateTimeZone class? Definitely a 'gotcha' when using PowerBI - they have a timezone option that is easy to mess up!
I do feel like this is a bit in 'bug' territory. I would expect localNow() to use the refresh timezone I had set.
