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Posted on by brianmaric

What the best line of code for getting the current date time for user preferred time zone?

  • GirishS Profile Picture
    GirishS 27,832 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at
    RE: get current datetime

    I guess both will return same output.

    Have you check that?

    Thanks

    Girish S.

  • brianmaric Profile Picture
    brianmaric on at
    RE: get current datetime

    is that different from this..

    DateTimeUtil::newDateTime(DateTimeUtil::getSystemDate(DateTimeUtil::getUserPreferredTimeZone()),

                             DateTimeUtil::getTimeNow(DateTimeUtil::getUserPreferredTimeZone()));

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    nunomaia 10,684 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at
    RE: get current datetime
    [quote user="Nuno Maia"]

    DateTimeUtil::applyTimeZoneOffset(DateTimeUtil::getSystemDateTime(), DateTimeUtil::getUserPreferredTimeZone()))

    [/quote]

    You can apply any time zone using  applyTimeZoneOffset method 

  • brianmaric Profile Picture
    brianmaric on at
    RE: get current datetime

    nice, but need the time zone applied

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    GirishS Profile Picture
    GirishS 27,832 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at
    RE: get current datetime

    Hi brianmaric,

    In addition to the Nuno Maia, You can also make use of "utcNow"method in "DateTimeUtil" class.

    Thanks,

    Girish S.

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    nunomaia 10,684 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at
    RE: get current datetime

    DateTimeUtil::applyTimeZoneOffset(DateTimeUtil::getSystemDateTime(), DateTimeUtil::getUserPreferredTimeZone()))

  • brianmaric Profile Picture
    brianmaric on at
    RE: get current datetime

    That's date not datetime

  • nunomaia Profile Picture
    nunomaia 10,684 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at
    RE: get current datetime

    Try this 

    DateTimeUtil::getSystemDate(DateTimeUtil::getUserPreferredTimeZone()))

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