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Behavior of the date and time field

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Posted on by sdnd2000 2,510

Hi, I have start & end date and time fields, behavior and format are date only. I can edit and save the date, but from database, I can see that it is updating start & end date utc field instead of start & end date field. That would affect the data migration, any suggestions?

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  • ashlega Profile Picture
    ashlega 34,477 on at
    RE: Behavior of the date and time field

    In the database, those dates should be stored as <date> 00:00 (00 for the time)

    Unless you have converted some datetime fields from another format

    Not sure it would affect the data migration - why? For the date only field CRM is only looking at the date portion.

    www.itaintboring.com/.../dates-in-dynamics-timezone-independent-vs-user-local

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    Mahendar Pal Profile Picture
    Mahendar Pal 45,095 on at
    RE: Behavior of the date and time field

    Hello,

    That's default behaviour, all the CRM dates are stored in UTC format in SQL server, but they are formatted accordingly in CRM UI.

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    sdnd2000 2,510 on at
    RE: Behavior of the date and time field

    but the utc field doesn't appear in the Kingswaysoft  tool

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    gdas 50,091 Moderator on at
    RE: Behavior of the date and time field

    Hi ,

    Yesyou are correct.Dynamics CRM stored datetime converting UTC so whenever you migrate data you should convert your each date time value with UTC format .

    You can refer below article to understand more on this. Hope this helps.

    community.dynamics.com/.../dynamics-crm-datetimes-the-last-word

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