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Using DateTime fields from SharePoint can be a royal PITA.  Here's the simplest way I've found to do a quick conversion from UTC time to AUS time. What Using Flow, when you pull dates from a SharePoint list, even if they look right in SharePoint, they come out wrong in Flow. Why SharePoint Lists store DateTime values in UTC format behind the scenes in the database.  This means even if you have Regional Settings set up in SharePoint to show the correct DateTime in the list, when you pull the data out using other applications, it spits out in UTC. We want to fix that. How The expression I use to quickly convert the timezone AND format it to the correct dd/mm/yyyy format is ConvertTimeZone() . This function expects the following information: ConvertTimeZone(DateTimeString, SourceTimeZone, DestinationTimeZone, Format) Here's an example I've used in an Email Action in Flow: convertTimeZone(triggerBody() ?[ 'DateTimeFromSharePoint' ], 'UTC'...

** UPDATE 16/10/2018: In Q4 2018, microsoft are releasing the capability to do this column formatting using the GUI (no code!):   https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/Reinventing-SharePoint-business-process-at-Microsoft-Ignite-2018/ba-p/260444 ** UPDATE 30/08/2018: I initially wrote this blog at the start of august with the old method (see end of post), however thanks to Dave Paylor ( @payl0rd ) I found a new, cleaner method to creating conditional formatting which brought my lines of JSON down from 50 to 7. What Microsoft have plenty of examples on how to implement conditional formatting on a SharePoint list.  However my specific needs were: If Date >= [Today] + 30 days Then Background WHITE If Date <= [Today] -2 years Then Background WHITE  (This covers any empty fields) Else Background ORANGE  Why I was building a list to monitor licence expiry, applying conditional formatting to these date rules meant that I c...