PowerBI regional/localisation settings (date time format/timezone) - PowerPivot dax NOW() returning UTC date

Can the regional settings be changed for PowerBI or are we stuck with UTC? Tried googling but the only hits for 'regional powerbi' relate to the portal being available in that region, not any kind of localisation configuration
I have a workbook that is set to auto refresh. I've added a 'last refreshed' label to the front page, but when refreshed on PowerBI it shows the time in UTC (10.5 hrs off from where I am).
I'm not a sharepoint person so will need steps and diagrams if it's a sharepoint config setting :)
Jakub @ Adelaide, Australia Blog

Hi Ed,
I have a date dimension and I add a computed column to it. It's called RefreshDate. The code for the computed column is =NOW()
I then use this column to show to the user when the model was last refreshed.
Hi Greg, not really interested in workarounds at this time (i have another thread going for that & my data source is web apis, not a relational db with datetime functions) -
this is more of a question of "is it possible to choose which timezone is used by the powerbi vertipaq engine for scheduled refreshes? yes/no"
We are working in a single time zone, but the PowerBI vertipaq engine looks like it's lives in london.
It shows the correct current time on the local user's PC when I (or a user) refreshes this model locally. It shows the UTC date (my time zone - 10.5 hrs) when the report is refreshed by powerbi.
I have a workaround going in my report currently using powerquery to get the utc date and manually add 10.5 hrs + add a label to my report that states this is a fixed 10.5hr. This is a hack because we're in a daylight savings zone, so in a few months
the tz will revert to +9.5hrs and i'll need to manually fix this again unless i'm able to set powerbi to use my time zone.
The sharepoint guys here have changed every setting they know about in sharepoint online/o365 in regards to time zones and localisation. The date format and dates shown are correct for the 'web pages' part of powerbi (the refresh history, the formatting
of the dates on the powerview reports etc), but the time zone used when powerbi executes the NOW() dax command appears to be set to UTC.
Thanks
Jakub @ Adelaide, Australia Blog

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