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I want to format my [Start Time] column as a short date. I created a calculated column and employed the TEXT() method like so:

=TEXT([Start Time], "MM/DD/YYYY")

However, it appears that this is returning and formatting the UTC value of [Start Time]. What I want is to display the formatting in the timezone that pertains to the user's experience.

How do I ask the calculated column to take into account the user's timezone (as captured when the field was created)?

detailed example

If I have a DateTime field set at: 3/21/2017 12:00 AM.

This appears to be stored, however, as: 42814.8333333333 ... which is equivalent to: 3/20/2017 8:00:00 PM UTC.

When I apply the calculated column (above) it outputs: 3/20/2017. Which is not what I want. I want 3/21/2017 ... which should be 42815.

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 =TEXT( ROUNDUP([Start Time]) , "MM/DD/YYYY")
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  • Hi thanks for commenting - I was hoping to find an actual timezone related solution. This will work in the specific example (12:00 AM) however if the time was at 21:00 it would round to the wrong date. SharePoint is obviously managing timezones - was hoping that functionality was available to us little users.
    – thornomad
    Commented Mar 23, 2017 at 16:21

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