I'm using ConvertTimeZone function in power automate to convert from UTC to a certain time zone. The only conversion that has passed is from UTC to Eastern Standard Time:
convertTimeZone(triggerOutputs()?['body/Maintenance_x0020_Window'],'UTC','Eastern Standard Time','dd-MMM-yyyy hh:mm tt')
Next I need to convert to the time zone in London - Greenwich Mean Time/GMT and to Lyon, Rhône, France time zone Central European Summer Time/CEST but i get this error:
the value provided for the time zone id 'Central European Summer Time' was not valid.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
It would seem that the convertTimeZone function expects a Windows time zone identifier. For your requested zones, the IDs are:
"Eastern Standard Time" - for the Eastern time zone of US & Canada inclusive of both EST and EDT
"GMT Standard Time" - for Great Britain, inclusive of both GMT and BST
"Romance Standard Time" - for France and several other European countries, inclusive of both CET and CEST
Yes - the names are confusing. You can read more about this and see ways to get the entire list of zone names by reading the subsection titled "The Microsoft Windows Time Zone Database" within the timezone tag wiki.
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I'm trying to change some old .asp files with vbs. Our database is going to be converted to store dates in UTC, but on webpages it should show dates and time in "Europe/Helsinki" timezone(
TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("FLE Standard Time")
in c#). How can I cast the UTC date I get from db query( the query is run in the .asp file as well and the result put into table) to correct date time using vbscript?
Just offset the UTC dates using DateAdd().
Const EETOffset = -2 'EET offset from UTC is -2 hours
Dim dbDateValue 'Assumed value from DB
Dim newDate
'... DB process to populate dbDateValue
newDate = DateAdd("h", EETOffset, dbDateValue)
Note: One problem with this approach is you will also have to compensate for EET and EEST (Eastern European Summer Time) manually based on the time of year. Which is also more difficult when you take into consideration some places don't use it and use EET all year round instead.
See EET – Eastern European Time (Standard Time).
Depending on the RDMS you are using you should even be able to manipulate the dates before they get to the page as part of the initial query.
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I'm trying to change some old .asp files with vbs. Our database is going to be converted to store dates in UTC, but on webpages it should show dates and time in "Europe/Helsinki" timezone(
TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("FLE Standard Time")
in c#). How can I cast the UTC date I get from db query( the query is run in the .asp file as well and the result put into table) to correct date time using vbscript?
Just offset the UTC dates using DateAdd().
Const EETOffset = -2 'EET offset from UTC is -2 hours
Dim dbDateValue 'Assumed value from DB
Dim newDate
'... DB process to populate dbDateValue
newDate = DateAdd("h", EETOffset, dbDateValue)
Note: One problem with this approach is you will also have to compensate for EET and EEST (Eastern European Summer Time) manually based on the time of year. Which is also more difficult when you take into consideration some places don't use it and use EET all year round instead.
See EET – Eastern European Time (Standard Time).
Depending on the RDMS you are using you should even be able to manipulate the dates before they get to the page as part of the initial query.
Useful Links
Format current date and time
How to format a datetime with minimal separators and timezone in VBScript?
This is what i'm trying to do:
I want to create a simple shell script that checks the current timezone in the UK.
i.e. BST or GMT.
I only can display the time for the current timezone the UK is in. i.e. UK is in GMT right now and I can only display that time. [TZ=GMT date]
Please note: I do not wish to permanently modify the UNIX time zone on the server (currently CET)
Based on that I need to do some calculations (which I'm fine with)
I have already searched and I cannot find anything specific to this problem. Thank you for your help
To get the date for a particular timezone, you can do:
TZ=GMT date
(Or date +%s if you want epoch format, which is also TZ independent, but altogether friendlier for calculations. ).
For what it is now, relative time I think it's as simple as:
TZ=Europe/London date
Which I think should cause your system to report BST/GMT appropriately.
If you want it to specifically report the offset, you can use the %z format specifier:
TZ=Europe/London date +"%Y%m%d %H:%M:%S %z"
I'm importing SQL data into Spotfire Analyst. All of the date and time fields are in the form of a Unix timestamp. What's the best way to convert this into an actual date format that I can manipulate in Spotfire?
Utilizing a calculated column you can calculate the datetime based on the UNIX epoch.
We simply add our seconds to the DateTime of the UNIX epoch (JAN 01 1970 00:00:00 UTC) to get the result. Below is an example of the UNIX time when I started writing this post.
DateAdd("second",1429733486,DateTime(1970,1,1,0,0,0,0))
The below is what should work for you:
DateAdd("second",[UNIX_TIMESTAMP_COLUMN],DateTime(1970,1,1,0,0,0,0))
Keep in mind these dates produced will be in the UTC timezone as per the JAN 1 1970 epoch. If you need them in your local time zone you may have to adjust accordingly with further DateAdd functions adding/subtracting time as per current conversions. Also, if you observe daylight savings time you may need to add some extra case logic to handle that as well.
Please let me know if you have any questions or need further clarification.
In 7.0 and later you can use
FromEpohTimeSeconds([UNIXDATE])
or
FromEpohTimeMilliseconds([UNIXDATE])
I'm trying to convert EST datetime to UTC in a Hive query, but can't see daylight saving taken into account. Do you know how to account for daylight saving in Hive?
For example:
TO_UTC_TIMESTAMP('2014-12-31 00:00:00', 'EST') gives 2014-12-31 05:00:00 i.e. 5 hour difference
TO_UTC_TIMESTAMP('2014-06-30 00:00:00', 'EST') gives 2014-06-30 05:00:00, also 5 hour difference
I'm expecting the June query to give a 4 hour difference.
In June the East Coast observes EDT (Eastern Daylight Savings Time), but Hive doesn't understand EDT at all:
TO_UTC_TIMESTAMP('2014-12-31 00:00:00', 'EDT') gives 2014-12-31 00:00:00 i.e. no difference
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Ilmari
(Running Hadoop 1.0.3 on AWS Elastic MapReduce)
Here is an open ticket from the Hive project that address this issue.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-12194
See 2nd comment:
Ben Breakstone added a comment - 16/Oct/15 16:54
It's worth noting the daylight saving time version of US three-letter codes like "PDT" are not included in /lib/zi/ for the Oracle JDK. New identifiers like "PST8PDT" appear to work as expected.
See http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/alertfurtherinfo-139131.html
Perhaps as Ben Breakstone suggests new identifiers will work?