KB-1363 Today() returns one day prior when locale is set to particular time zones

Maggie Deppe-Walker — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 23:28:00 GMT

Current Revision posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Maggie Deppe-Walker on 3/4/2024 11:28:00 PM

Symptoms

When a user's locale is set to some particular time zones, such as Australia Standard Time (Australia/Darwin) or Japan Standard Time (Asia/Tokyo), the date returned by today() is one day prior to expected.

For example, if today's date is 17-JANUARY-2024, today() would return 16-JANUARY-2024.

Cause

This issue has been reported to the Appian Product team. The reference number for this issue is AN-41155.

Workaround

Use either of the following expressions in place of today():

todate(local(now()))
date(useryear(now()), usermonth(now()), userday(now()))

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian.

Last Reviewed: January 2024

Tags: known issues, expression rules, application design, open issues

KB-1363 Today() returns one day prior when timezone is set to AST (Australia/Darwin)

Jordan Horwat — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 14:31:40 GMT

Revision 4 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Jordan Horwat on 7/23/2018 2:31:40 PM

Symptoms

When a user's timezone is set to Australia Standard Time (Australia/Darwin) the date returned by today() is one day prior

For example, if today's date is 5-MAY-2017, today() would return 4-MAY-2017.

Cause

This issue has been reported to the Appian product team. The reference number for this issue is AN-41155.

Action

As a workaround for this issue, please use the following expression in place of today():

todate(datetext(now(),"MM/dd/yyyy"))

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian.

Last Reviewed: May 2017

Tags: known issues, expression rules, application design, open issues

KB-1363 Today() returns one day prior when timezone is set to AST (Australia/Darwin)

Jordan Horwat — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 14:31:26 GMT

Revision 3 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Jordan Horwat on 7/23/2018 2:31:26 PM

Symptoms

When a user's timezone is set to Australia Standard Time (Australia/Darwin) the date returned by today() is one day prior

For example, if today's date is 5-MAY-2017, today() would return 4-MAY-2017.

Cause

This issue has been reported to the Appian product team. The reference number for this issue is AN-41155.

Action

As a workaround for this issue, please use the following expression in place of today():

todate(datetext(now(),"MM/dd/yyyy"))

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian.

Last Reviewed: May 2017

Tags: known issues, expression rules, application design, open issues

KB-1363 Today() returns one day prior when timezone is set to AST (Australia/Darwin)

Nick Vigilante — Fri, 26 May 2017 12:31:37 GMT

Revision 2 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Nick Vigilante on 5/26/2017 12:31:37 PM

Symptoms

When a user's timezone is set to Australia Standard Time (Australia/Darwin) the date returned by today() is one day prior

For example, if today's date is 5-MAY-2017, today() would return 4-MAY-2017.

Cause

This issue has been reported to the Appian product team. The reference number for this issue is AN-41155.

Action

As a workaround for this issue, please use the following expression in place of today() :

todate(datetext(now(),"MM/dd/yyyy"))

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian.

Last Reviewed: May 2017

Tags: known issues, expression rules, open issues