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TP80
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February 11, 2022
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time zone convert

  • February 11, 2022
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Good Day all,

I have my date and time formatted as dd-mmm-yy hh:mm in local time in one area but need to convert to zulu/utc in another area. I've found a few time but nothing that would work for me. I do not need to convert the right now time, I need to convert a time that's already inputted within another field. 

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try67
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try67Community Expert
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February 11, 2022

You can find the offset of the current time-zone (from UTC, in minutes) like this:

 

new Date().getTimezoneOffset()

 

Then if you know the offset of the time-zone you want to convert it to, just calculate the difference between the two and add (or subtract) the desired amount from your Date object.

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    TP80Author
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    February 14, 2022

    Thank you for the feed back, I'm still very new at this and trying to build it correctly. Do I need to build it as a function?

     

    var dateConvert = "Text53";

    function ConvertDate (nDate) {

    newDate("dateConvert").getTimezoneOffset() / 360

    }

     

     

    try67
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    try67Community Expert
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    February 14, 2022

    That worked, thank you what does the / 60 represent?


    As I wrote, getTimezoneOffset returns a value in minutes, and we want it in hours. Although in second thought I believe some time-zones are at an offset of 30 minutes, so it might be better to do it like this:

    d.setMinutes(d.getMinutes()+(new Date().getTimezoneOffset()));

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