Convert Time zone

RE: Convert Time zone

Mathieu Drouin — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 12:45:34 GMT

Yeah sorry read it too quickly.

RE: Convert Time zone

sureshgunawardane — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 12:23:02 GMT

It really does not matter much as gmt and local functions counteract each other,

for example both of below expressions provides the same output,

{
  
  local(gmt(now()), "Canada/Eastern"),

  gmt(local(now(),"Canada/Eastern"))

}

RE: Convert Time zone

Mathieu Drouin — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 12:13:26 GMT

Should be the opposite no?

local(gmt(local!dateTime), "Canada/Eastern")

Stefan has a post that covers this: https://appian.rocks/2023/02/13/working-with-time-in-appian/

RE: Convert Time zone

sureshgunawardane — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:39:33 GMT

As Mike suggested it is bit tricky to work with multiple time zone conversion, as Appian when run in process model unless overridden by the PM time zone feature treats date time in GMT else on UI it is based on the default time zone set on admin console.

Though it is not a very good way of doing it I found it useful to calculate it like below and save it in DB as the value saved will not contain time zone part hence it saves the date and time value of the provided time zone (in case of below example 'Asia/Colombo' time).

gmt(
local(now(), "Asia/Colombo")
)

or you can have an offset filed saved in a database table column of each record (+5 or -1 ) depending on the time zone and and use that to manually calculate the date time values when you need specific value to display or do calculation based on the time.

RE: Convert Time zone

Mike Schmitt — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 14:28:59 GMT

This is often tricky to work with, but what I can suggest up front is to review the available "Date and Time functions" in the documentation.