UTC time zone work around help

[STS_Joshua]

Hi all,

I have a report that uses the TODAY() function to calculate a few things such as sales made today:

today = CALCULATE(SUMX('Open','Open'[Quantity]*'Open'[Price]*'Open'[DocRate]),'Open'[DocDate]=today())

The problem is that the BI service uses UTC time and we are located in MST so this measure will return $0 at 6pm (UTC -6). I am pulling the data from our SQL server which is located locally and the report needs to remain a direct query report. The current time doesn't really matter to us, just the date so I thought of replacing TODAY() like this:

today = CALCULATE(SUMX('Open','Open'[Quantity]*'Open'[Price]*'Open'[DocRate]),'Open'[DocDate]=LASTDATE('Open'[DocDate]))

This is not allowed by the DAX police apparently...

Is there something else that I can do to work around this issue?

[STS_Joshua]

I'm going to try replacing TODAY() with NOW()-(6/24) which should hopefully subtract 6 hours from UTC and make the times match at least online. On desktop the report will think it's 6 hours prior but I don't think I'll have many reasons to run this report at 5am... 

I do hope doing it this way won't just attempt to subtract 6 hours from UTC at midnight in this sort of fashion:

NOW(): 5/24/2019 00:00 = NOW()-(6/24): 5/24/2019 00:00

NOW(): 5/24/2019 01:00 = NOW()-(6/24): 5/24/2019 00:00

NOW(): 5/24/2019 02:00 = NOW()-(6/24): 5/24/2019 00:00

...

NOW(): 5/24/2019 07:00 = NOW()-(6/24): 5/24/2019 01:00

[v-cherch-msft]

Hi @STS_Joshua 

There're two workarounds for you.One in dax and the other in query editor.Please check if below posts could help.

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/DateTimeZone-UtcNow-not-working-properly-in-Power-BI-Servic...

https://radacad.com/solving-dax-time-zone-issue-in-power-bi

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Regards,

[STS_Joshua]

As I mentioned above, I changed all the TODAY() to NOW()-(6/24) and that is displays the time in the right time zone. The strange thing is that when I went to access the report sales for the day went to (Blank) after 1800MST (UTC-6) while the time still showed as correct for the time zone.

[v-cherch-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @STS_Joshua 

Please check if below formula could help.

today =
SUMX (
    FILTER ( 'Open', 'Open'[DocDate] = LASTDATE ( 'Open'[DocDate] ) ),
    'Open'[Quantity] * 'Open'[Price] * 'Open'[DocRate]
)

Regards,