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memergo
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Wrong culture format displaying after publishing

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):

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In Power BI Desktop the formatted month values look fine:

memergo_1-1755260920009.png

However, after my publishing it looks like this:

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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:

  • My machine Region is set to English (United States) format
  • Regional settings in Power BI desktop are all fine:
    • Global Regional Settings: Application language is set to 'Use Windows default display language' 
    • Model language to 'Use application language'
    • Regional settings of the current file locale is set to English (United States)
  • Our tenant is registered in West-Europe and the display language in my preferences is set to English (United States).
  • The Semantic Model in the service has both Culture and Source Query Culture set to en-US as well when I inspect using Tabular Editor.

 

Does anyone have an idea what is going on?

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memergo
Regular Visitor

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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memergo
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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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