why is "timezone()" giving a different value as the offset from GMT?

RE: why is "timezone()" giving a different value as the offset from GMT?

julienc — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:10:44 GMT

I was able to fix the issue by comparing a datetime() with a now() normalized with local().

a!localVariables(
local!nowLocal: local(now()),

local!today17: datetime(
year(local!nowLocal),
month(local!nowLocal),
day(local!nowLocal),
17, 0, 0
),

local!isAfter17h: local!nowLocal > local!today17,

local!dayEnd: todate(local!nowLocal) + if(local!isAfter17h, 1, 0),

RE: why is "timezone()" giving a different value as the offset from GMT?

Stefan Helzle — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:06:15 GMT

Seems like you try to do your own date&time calculations. Most of the time, this is a bad idea. I tried to cover most of the date&time related tricks in this blog post: https://appian.rocks/2023/02/13/working-with-time-in-appian/

RE: why is "timezone()" giving a different value as the offset from GMT?

Shubham Aware — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:00:59 GMT

timezone() returns only the winter-time base offset and does not automatically account for daylight saving time.
Use
local!heure: hour(local(local!dateBegin))

local()

RE: why is "timezone()" giving a different value as the offset from GMT?

Mike Schmitt — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:14:25 GMT

Have you tried just using local()?