issue with converting date to string

RE: issue with converting date to string

Sikhi Bhamidipalli — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 17:30:31 GMT

In general, projects will have a global/common rule by APP_returnToday, which wraps the today in local.

If not, today() will give you the last day's date until it passes GMT 12.

RE: issue with converting date to string

linp0001 — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 16:36:18 GMT

thank you.

RE: issue with converting date to string

sairohitd054766 — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 08:27:49 GMT

text(today(),"yyyyMMdd")
This returns the expected one.

RE: issue with converting date to string

linp0001 — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 23:07:10 GMT

thanks, maybe the timezone setting is not correct, but I am ok now with using text() function.

RE: issue with converting date to string

GopalK — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:23:36 GMT

yes, i am getting the same result .

RE: issue with converting date to string

linp0001 — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:12:34 GMT

if you run just today(), you got the same date?

RE: issue with converting date to string

linp0001 — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:11:16 GMT

Thanks Mike, it's working.

RE: issue with converting date to string

Mike Schmitt — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:01:35 GMT

FWIW I always seem to have better results using "text()" for these, rather than "datetext()". Also as Princy noted above already, you need to account for GMT conversion - I would suggest trying the same code but with "today()" wrapped in "local()".

RE: issue with converting date to string

GopalK — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 03:55:50 GMT

Hi, I am using the same code which you are using and i am getting expected result, please see below. I would suggest you check your environment time zone.

RE: issue with converting date to string

Prin18 — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 03:30:25 GMT

today() function returns the current day in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) so the result may differ from the current day in your local timezone.

RE: issue with converting date to string

Mathieu Drouin — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 02:24:55 GMT

Date format should be "yyyyMMdd"

Also be aware of this: community.appian.com/.../kb-1344-datetext-returns-one-day-before-expected-date

RE: issue with converting date to string

linp0001 — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 00:50:07 GMT

sorry the datetext(today(), "YMMd") return "20220328", not "20200328"