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Hi all, I have a strange situation with months being displayed in a seemingly random culture format.
The issue is with formatted dates created with a calculated table (note Month has an "en-EN" culture arguement):
In Power BI Desktop the formatted month values look fine:
However, after my publishing it looks like this:
Google tells me this is Afar language, which I guess will be culture settings "aa", but I haven't the slightest clue why it does this.
So far I've checked:
Does anyone have an idea what is going on?
Solved! Go to Solution.
As a last ditch effort I tried removing the "en-EN" from the FORMAT() DAX functions and this ended up displaying the months correctly after publishing. Still don't understand why but at least my report makes sense now.
As a last ditch effort I tried removing the "en-EN" from the FORMAT() DAX functions and this ended up displaying the months correctly after publishing. Still don't understand why but at least my report makes sense now.
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