Timezone Not Local

Abdullah Abdulkarim

Hi, I have a function with 2 inputs:

{ "date_input": "now",

"timezone_input": "America/New_York" }

I'm trying to get the date for users in New York. However, when I run my function it keeps giving me the date for UTC rather than the local date.

Not sure what i'm missing, I included screenshots below, it's Nov 21st New York time, but it keeps giving me Nov 22nd.

Michael Udinski

Hi @Abdullah Abdulkarim -- timestamps and dates are two different data types. You will either want to use a timestamp input to apply this transformation or convert your date input into a UNIX timestamp in milliseconds before applying the transformation

nocodetalks

When you pass the "now", it do not take any timezone consideration.

You eventually said to convert the date(with no timezone) to "America/new york", that's why it return an error in the date.

You also want to add "h:m" into the formatted date so that you can actually show the timezone differences in date.

@Abdullah Abdulkarim

Abdullah Abdulkarim

@Michael Udinski thanks, that fixed it! I switched to a timestamp and the rest worked

NelsonOrlando12

@Michael Udinski Hi, I hope you are very well, first of all, I am sorry for using this space to publish this, which is not related, I wanted to tell you michael that I made a post about 5 days ago and it is still not published and of course I have not been able to get an answer. what should I do? 

(it says that once it is verified it will be published, but that was several days ago, I tried to do it again and the same thing happened).

nocodetalks

@NelsonOrlando12 message me. Will see if I can help you.