Implement This 34: Dates in the Common Data Service for Apps

On today’s episode (sponsored by D365UG/CRMUG), Britta Rekstad and Matthew C. Anderson discuss date fields in the Common Data Service for Apps and the considerations for PowerApps and Dynamics 365 configuration.

Discussed on the show

• The default behavior for new fields
• Date field options
• Time Zone offset, UTC date and time
• Time in date-only fields
• Matthew’s first mistake with date fields
• Time zone and Canvas vs. Model PowerApps
• Calculated fields and “date math”
• Looking at the wider Power platform (Flow, Power BI)
• Grey areas for date field type in your data model (one of us says “willy nilly”)
• Fun facts

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