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The [Update an item] action will update date to other date sometimes

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When I use [Update an item] to update a column in SharePoint, I assign the value of the column itself to the required column. In this way, only the columns that need to be changed are updated without changing the original values of other columns.
However, as shown in the picture, these two columns are Date or Time type columns, which are sometimes updated to the date of the previous day. For example, if 2022/11/01 written on the SharePoint, it will be updated to 2022/10/31 through Power Automate flow.

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I guess it may be because the SharePoint site's time zone is UTC+08:00, while the Power Automate is the UTC time. If there is time difference in a certain time period, it is updated to other dates. However, this problem has never occurred before. The customer pointed out this problem last week. It will be very helpful if someone could help me in this.
Thank you!

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    CFernandes Profile Picture
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    Hello @Mabel 

     

     SharePoint will take care according to its regional

     

    You can use the "Convert time zone" action convert the time and then update it... I think you will need to use yyyy-MM-dd format in flow.

     

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  • Mabel Profile Picture
    34 on at

    Hello @CFernandes 
    Thank you very much for your help. It's really useful.

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