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charliebyrd
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UTC Timezone differences - Power Apps, SharePoint, Power Query

I've looked at many threads on UTC TimeZone conversions, but can't find my solution.

 

I'm going from Power Apps to SharePoint list and then to Excel through Power Query, problem is in Excel:

 - I am in and my phone is set to local UTC -4 San Juan where I use the Power Apps

 - I want the time data to be in UTC -5 Eastern.

 - SharePoint site is set to UTC -5 Eastern and the time is correct in SharePoint

 - The time is NOT correct in Excel when it comes in through Power Query, it adds 5 hours so 1:00pm is 6pm (same is true for Power BI)

 

PowerApps: 

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SharePoint:

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Excel/Power BI:

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Where and how do I make the conversion for the data in Power Query/Power BI??

 

@WarrenBelz 

 

Thanks!!

C

 

 

 

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@Pstork1 No no big reason, I've always used SharePoint, familiarity I guess. I would have the same issue in Excel though right since it is default UTC 0 ? Everything works perfect in SP except for this one issue...  

@gabibalaban 

Forgive me, but I think I did it correctly, but I changed the names of the steps slightly.

My 'Changed Type' step is for changing the type of other columns...

 

Step: Change Entry Date Type:

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Step: Change Time Zone:

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@Pstork1 I'm looking into switching to Excel based data source and finding out you can't use tables with formulas so all the calculations need to be in PowerApps, whereas SharePoint contains the calculations, a tradeoff. I do agree it would be simpler in the end to eliminate SharePoint from the chain. I don't know if switching to Excel will solve the Time Zone issue though. 

 

Anyway, thanks for your input.  

Pstork1
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Sorry, I'm missing something.  I just don't see where Power Query is a requirement here, whether the data source is SharePoint or Excel or both.  There is something about what you are doing that I'm just not getting.



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Well, Power Query will not be required if I switch to Excel as the Data Source for the Power App, but currently I'm storing the data/calculations in SharePoint and then using Power Query to pull down analyze the data in Excel and Power BI. 

Again, the only issue I have with using SharePoint is when I get the time data in Excel and Power BI it defaults to UTC-0 and I can't figure out how to change it so for. So, if I switch to Excel as the data source, maybe it will be a non-issue, don't know yet.

Pstork1
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Just switching to Excel as a data source isn't going to solve your problem.  Power Apps, SharePoint and Power BI are all Microsoft 365 apps that are international in scope.  Excel isn't.  So Excel doesn't take location into account when working with Dates/Times while the others do.  Just taking SharePoint out of the mix won't change that.



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@gabibalaban , do you want to give this one more try before I post a new question in the forum? See my reply to you from Monday with Power Query steps broken out, I'm pretty sure I'm matching your syntax, just perplexed as to what's going on! Thank you so much for your time. 

 

Hi @charliebyrd ,

You match my thoughts about the formula, there is something else strange indeed.

Let's try to replace the first step from my solution with the menu-way (if we aren't so good at formulas 🙂 ), may be this will work...So after the "Change Type" delete my step and insert a new one doing this:

1. Select the EntryDateandTime column (by the way which type is it?)

2. Go to the menu Transform -> DataType -> 

Capture1.PNG 

I don't know if you already tried this, but i don't have a clue why your data don't accept datetimezone 

Ya, no difference, I've tried converting it to both Datetime and Datetimezone. Uff

This is my SharePoint column:

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charliebyrd
Helper I
Helper I

@gabibalaban , @Pstork1 

FYI

Follow up to close this out. I hired someone to work on it - NO SOLUTION, but what I would call a workaround.

Added new column and subtracted hours, then replaced the old Entry column with new one...

It works, that all that matters to me on this one.

 

= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type","updated_EntryDateandTime", each [EntryDateandTime] - #duration(0,4,0,0))

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