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Support for visualization of UTC timestamps

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Sam Vanhoutte on 30 Jun 2015 19:51:50

We are keeping all of our time values in our data sources as UTC (as we consider this a best practice for our international customers).
However, when showing those dates in PowerBI reports, we’d love to get the option to visualize that date as a local timestamp, instead of the UTC timestamp.
I know this is not something that everyone needs as a default, but having the option to mark a field with datatype ‘utctimestamp’, for example would be a good solution.

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Mark Sommerford on 09 Aug 2021 12:04:58

RE: Support for visualization of UTC timestamps

This is a MUST HAVE

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Ivan Berry on 22 Jun 2021 18:51:12

RE: Support for visualization of UTC timestamps

This is a critical feature. We need this!

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Nathan Wong on 17 Sep 2020 15:32:33

RE: Support for visualization of UTC timestamps

Any update on this idea? This is a major requirement, help us to show UTC in our client timezones!

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Edgar Walther on 06 Jul 2020 00:16:45

RE: Support for visualization of UTC timestamps

I just ran into this issue for the first time, but I'm surprised that this is not standard functionality. There should be a way to show a utc date in the users' local time zone.

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Tripp Donnelly on 06 Jul 2020 00:16:08

RE: Support for visualization of UTC timestamps

timezone functionality in power query and DAX is limited and does not support users from multiple time zones. The proposed solution, indicating the data's timezone then converting it to the users timezone is the right solution!

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:15:56

RE: Support for visualization of UTC timestamps

update required

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:13:35

RE: Support for visualization of UTC timestamps

I am really surprised about how MS had successfully parked aside some of the basic minimum requirements while advertising about other advanced feature things. This issue has been reported since a few years now and no action whatsoever have been taken to address this

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Alex Gonzalez on 06 Jul 2020 00:10:46

RE: Support for visualization of UTC timestamps

Yes please!

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Jason Campbell on 06 Jul 2020 00:08:52

RE: Support for visualization of UTC timestamps

This is greatly needed. As others have said, it's a basic feature that should not have been ignored. Especially since it's marketed/implemented over multiple time zones.

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Swapnil Desarda on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:54

RE: Support for visualization of UTC timestamps

Sure needed