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Hello,
We have built a PowerApps SharePoint list form with many datetime fields. What i noticed is the date time selected in Power Apps form differs from what is getting saved to SharePoint. The SharePoint regional timezone settings uses Eastern Standard Time(EST), and i would like the user from any location to access the Power Apps form, select the date/time assuming it is EST time, so that form and SharePoint date and time matches. Is there a way out to do this in PowerApps?
Hi annajhaveri
The date column is a pet peeve of mine. It always introduces issues along the way in Power Apps, SharePoint and even Power Automate. Often when making a new app, I would opt to use the default the date/time column type, only to realise soon after why I never use it, as it always causes a headache where you have to fiddle to make it work as intended.
Some of the Power Masters on here will defo chip in with a better solution but as a workaround, I simply use TEXT columns in SharePoint to represent dates/times. You can easily tell a DatePicker control in PowerApps to update a TXT column with the selected date and time.
@fnanfne thanks for the quick response, but we do use the date time column further in SharePoint list to create views with filtering and sorting. So Date time column does help with that, where Text column will not work in expected way for Date time values.
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