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Drobinson1
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now()

When I use now() as a measure in desktop if give the correct time when I publish to powerbi service I get a time that is several hours later.  Any ideas?

I am using direct query connection

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v-qiuyu-msft
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Hi @Drobinson1,

 

This is a known gap. The time zone in the service is effectively always set to UTC. See: Timezone not displaying correctly in Cloud service.

 

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Qiuyun Yu   

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Greg_Deckler
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I'm guessing time zone issue. Perhaps check your time zone setting in your O365 tenant?

 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Issues/Timezone-not-displaying-correctly-in-Cloud-service/idi-p/120...

 



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