how to get GMT time from local time -e.g. in the UK with BST 09:00am local time is 080000.000 GMT, in winter is 090000.000 GMT )
based in the UK,
I have a time of day config value which will be 09:00
in UK summer time (GMT + 1 )
09:00am localtime is 08:00 GMT e.g. 20220701T080000.000 GMT
In UK winter time (GMT)
09:00am local time is 09:00 GMT e.g. 20221201T090000.000 GMT
is there a OOB function which will convert a local date/time value to a GMT/UTC date time value - I do not want to do a manual check for day light savings. ??
Eclatprime Digital Private Limited
AU
Use the FormatDateTime function to get the appropriate date by passing the required timezone as a parameter.
For example @(Pega-RULES:DateTime).FormatDateTime(@(Pega-RULES:DateTime).getCurrentTimeStamp,"MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a", "GMT", "en_US")
Hope this helps..
Regards,
Ankitha.
Labb Consulting
GB
@AnkithaReddyRthat doesn't solve my issue, in your example you are calling the getCurrentTimeStamp to get the datetime value - this will be fully qualified datetime value i.e. including timezone etc
I will have a config time value - as a string e.g. "09:00", this represents local time
in the UK we have just switched to British Summer Time i.e. +1 hour , so "09:00" local time today is 08:00 GMT
Last week (before switching over to BST ) "09:00" local time will be 09:00 GMT so what I want to do - is given a string e.g. "09:00", i want to get the GMT time - so the system will take into account BST settings