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SRobbo1990
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Scheduled Refresh and BST

Hi All,

 

Here in the UK we have recently moved over to British Summer Time (BST) which is GMT +1. I have no issues as the report i've built refreshes every hour and is used in the UK and Boston. However in my report I have a last refreshed date/time (which is an hour behind)

 

SRobbo1990_0-1648571415340.png

However if you look at the report/dataset both are saying the following;

 

SRobbo1990_1-1648571478782.pngSRobbo1990_2-1648571504636.png

 

After spending an hour researching what the issue is and not finding anything. 

 

The correct time of the refresh was in fact

SRobbo1990_0-1648571717762.png

and I'm wondering if there's a solution to get the 'last refreshed' date/time correct (ie 2022-03-29 17:14)

 

 

Thanks

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Burningsuit
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Hi @SRobbo1990 

The clock inside Power BI service always runs in UTC and various places then modify this to local time when it is displayed. However this means that if you get the time in a Report from a measure like TIME=NOW()  you get the time in UTC. This wasn't a problem last week, when the UK was on GMT which is effectively the same as UTC, but now we are on BST you'll need to do something like BST = NOW()+(1/24). This, I know,  is a dirty hack,  so here are some links to how you can do this properly if you want.

Dynamic time zone conversion using Power BI – The White Pages (unlimitedviz.com)

Chris Webb's BI Blog: Daylight Saving Time And Time Zones In M Chris Webb's BI Blog (crossjoin.co.uk...

Hope this helps.

Stuart

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Burningsuit
Resident Rockstar
Resident Rockstar

Hi @SRobbo1990 

The clock inside Power BI service always runs in UTC and various places then modify this to local time when it is displayed. However this means that if you get the time in a Report from a measure like TIME=NOW()  you get the time in UTC. This wasn't a problem last week, when the UK was on GMT which is effectively the same as UTC, but now we are on BST you'll need to do something like BST = NOW()+(1/24). This, I know,  is a dirty hack,  so here are some links to how you can do this properly if you want.

Dynamic time zone conversion using Power BI – The White Pages (unlimitedviz.com)

Chris Webb's BI Blog: Daylight Saving Time And Time Zones In M Chris Webb's BI Blog (crossjoin.co.uk...

Hope this helps.

Stuart

I implemented the dirty hack and it appears to be working

 

Thanks

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