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Hi,

The formatted date on power automate and the output on email is displaying wrong. I have formatted my date to display --

formatDateTime(item()?['duedate'],'ddd MMM yyyy'); but the email outlook records are subtracting one day. My original records are on

and its a Thursday on the calendar. On the email it shows Wed Sep 2021.

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Mira Ghaly 11,415 Moderator on at

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If this date is coming from DataVerse , then it is in UTC format so you will need to convert it to your local time zone.

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Hi,
This is a part of my flow where I used the convert time control:
but my output is as seen below which is one day less when it displays as the day of the week:

When in date format it displays the correct date:

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From the flow run history can you show the convert timezone step input and output?

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Input:

Error Details:
The execution of template action 'Select' failed: The evaluation of 'query' action 'where' expression '{
"Due Date": "@convertTimeZone('bg_expirydate','UTC','Arab Standard Time')"
}' failed: 'In function 'convertTimeZone', the value provided for date time string 'bg_expirydate' was not valid. The datetime string must match ISO 8601 format.'.

Moreover, when trying to format date using Select control using expressions, it doesnt display all the column names. Copy- pasting the actual column name gives me the above error details.

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formatdatetime doesnt work seamlessly using expressions as I had to write the actual column name instead of choosing from the columns list. So, with regard to my original post, I had to tweak a little to get the desired output. In the formatdatetime(), I added addDays() and that solved my issue.

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