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I had a few instances where I was processing large volumes of data, and noticed afterwards that some of the dates were a day out. The first time it happened, I assumed I made a mistake somehow. The second time I was a bit suspicious. The third time I knew something was wrong, but I didn't know what. 

For a while, I didn't encounter the issue again. Until today.

I created a simple power flow this morning to alert the staff about a client's birthday. I created a test client with a birthday today, so that I could test the flow. The flow isn't giving the desired results. When I checked the flow outcome, up comes the issue again - see the screenshot. 

Why is this happening? How do I fix it? What is this datetimeoffset thing?

 

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    Drew Poggemann Profile Picture
    9,287 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Hi @hildasteyn ,

    This is definitely a date / time zone issue.

    All dates in Dataverse are stored in UTC and then you can define different types of fields on your dates in Dataverse.  For something like a Birthday, you should look at a Date Only field and in the advanced settings set as Date Only as well.

    dpoggemann_0-1693415709444.png

     

    Good links explaining dates / times in Dataverse and Flow here:  

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/data-platform/behavior-format-date-time-field

    https://nishantrana.me/2023/08/22/date-time-fields-date-only-and-user-local-behaviour-in-power-automate-dataverse/ 

  • Hilda Steyn Profile Picture
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    Thanks for that. I learned something new.

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