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Availability

This routine is available starting with katl-commons 2.5.6

Syntax

 toTimeZone(date, timeZone)


Description

Converts a date to the specified time zone.

Parameters

Parameter name

Type

Required

Description

datedate

Yes

Specifies the date to convert.
timeZonestringNoSpecifies the time zone using a format compatible with TimeZone. See TimeZone for more details.

 

Return type

date

Example

desc = "";
date d = toDate(2012, 01, 20, 0, 0, 0, 0, "GMT-8");
string format = "dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss Z";

desc += formatDate(d, format) + " converted to " + formatDate(toTimeZone(d, "GMT+2"), format);

Outputs to description: 20-Jan-2012 00:00:00 -0800 converted to 20-Jan-2012 10:00:00 +0200

Example 2

desc = "";
date d = "2020-07-27T08:28:00+0300";
string format = "dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss Z";

desc += formatDate(d, format) + " converted to " + formatDate(toTimeZone(d, "GMT"), format);

Outputs to description: 27-Jul-2020 08:28:00 +0300 converted to 27-Jul-2020 05:28:00 +0000

The date in example 2 must follow the formats listed for date here

See also

 

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