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CloudMonkey
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Service user seeing report date/times in other country format

Hi

 

One of my users is seeing dates and times in another country's format - please can you tell me how to fix? She is seeing:

01/28/2021 instead of 28/01/2021

12:00am instead of 00:00am

 

Thanks!

 

CM

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v-cazheng-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @CloudMonkey 

Power BI Service will display the format of date/time according to the Timezone related with the settings of language. So it will be affected by the following settings.

 

1 Settings>General>Language in Power BI Service

v-cazheng-msft_0-1617267717049.png

 

 

v-cazheng-msft_6-1617267767816.png

 

 

2 If the Language of the user in Power BI Settings is set as Default(browser language), then the date format will be affected by the Language of the user's browser. Take Microsoft Edge as an example, Settings>Language>Preferred languages.

v-cazheng-msft_2-1617267717076.png

 

 

Here is a test.

1 The language of the pbix is English and the date format is as following.

v-cazheng-msft_3-1617267717079.png

 

2 If the language of Service is set as Chinese, then the date format will look like this.

v-cazheng-msft_4-1617267717079.png

 

3 After changing the language to English, the date format will change as following.

v-cazheng-msft_5-1617267717080.png

 

For more details, you can refer How to change the date Format in the Power BI Service.

 

Best Regards

Caiyun Zheng

 

Is that the answer you're looking for? If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

 

 

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v-cazheng-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @CloudMonkey 

Power BI Service will display the format of date/time according to the Timezone related with the settings of language. So it will be affected by the following settings.

 

1 Settings>General>Language in Power BI Service

v-cazheng-msft_0-1617267717049.png

 

 

v-cazheng-msft_6-1617267767816.png

 

 

2 If the Language of the user in Power BI Settings is set as Default(browser language), then the date format will be affected by the Language of the user's browser. Take Microsoft Edge as an example, Settings>Language>Preferred languages.

v-cazheng-msft_2-1617267717076.png

 

 

Here is a test.

1 The language of the pbix is English and the date format is as following.

v-cazheng-msft_3-1617267717079.png

 

2 If the language of Service is set as Chinese, then the date format will look like this.

v-cazheng-msft_4-1617267717079.png

 

3 After changing the language to English, the date format will change as following.

v-cazheng-msft_5-1617267717080.png

 

For more details, you can refer How to change the date Format in the Power BI Service.

 

Best Regards

Caiyun Zheng

 

Is that the answer you're looking for? If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

 

 

HarishKM
Memorable Member
Memorable Member

@CloudMonkey  Hey Mate ,
Kindly enable this setting and republish .

HarishKM_0-1617164187193.png

and 2nd option :

HarishKM_1-1617165101687.png
Try this , It will work .

 

lbendlin
Super User
Super User

she needs to change the locale settings on her PC.

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