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nagavenkataramkiranv8681
October 25, 2025
Question

Change Data and time Irrespective of Users Time zone

  • October 25, 2025
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I have a requirement in Appian.
Let's assume I'm logging in from India, so my Appian application time zone is set to IST.

However, the requirement is that — regardless of the user's time zone — all date and time values should be displayed in CST on UI

How can this be achieved in Appian?

3 replies

stefanhelzle0001
October 26, 2025
shubhama926776
October 27, 2025

Working example

a!localVariables(
  local!now:now(),
text(
  local(
    gmt(now()),
    "CST"
  ),
  "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm a"
)
)

mikes0011
Brainy
October 27, 2025

I'll jump in here and - affirming Shubham's suggested recipe as the likely solution - you will find this a lot less confusing to deal with if you abstract all such functionality behind an Expression Rule (or perhaps a small handful of different rules to handle different related pieces of this functionality) - as this will make it quite a bit easier to test out and keep up with as your system expands, and you're faced with potential future requirement shifts / additions.