Timezone
Tamar Rochon
apparently, I just called the .toString() function after the timezone and it worked. Although on the screenshot it says there is an issue with the function. It works good now, and the time looks like this:
Ok thanks @adamhholmes. So if I have 08/26/2022 10:00 am stored in a date field and considered as a timestamp. I want to display that as UTC, I am going to select a static timezone from the builder. Specifically I am going to pull the timestamp from my date object and will select UTC as static timezone.
What time zone or city are you looking for; the time zone strings won't reflect Daylight saving time, but the timezone will adjust for it. So look up the standard timezone offset (no daylight saving adjustment) for your location's nearest major city for best results in the cli parameters.
I'm looking for timezone "GMT+01:00-CET-Europe/Amsterdam". This zone is listed in the developer doc, but I can't select it.
First I tried a couple times, but the only one that's "close" to my location is Lisabon :S
(even tried within shell)
I also deployed version 12.1 492.23 and with this version I have no problem changing the timezone.... (even with the GUI)
t really looks like a "version specific bug". So this problem exists in the two latest versions of the Netscaler OVF (12.1-51.19 and 12.1-50.28).
I'm using the REST API with a one-shot search to pull back some previously summarized information. The summary indexing was done with EST timezone so the events show up as 00:00:00 EST. The server i'm doing the REST API call from is on CST timezone. When I get the results back from the search they show up as the previous day because the timestamp ends up being 1 hour before at 23:00:00 CST - 1Day. This is completely screwing up my search results. Is there a way to force the API call to use EST timezone instead of the system default?
Is there any way to have the field converted properly without having to worry about DST changes?
I was thinking that using formatDate I could create a string with date, time and timezone, then use parseDate, but unfortunately time zone info is not in the list of supported formats.
Warning: getdate() [function.getdate]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are required to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Chicago' for 'CST/-6.0/no DST'
...which had the correct timezone for me and was the only .ini file being loaded with date.timezone within it, but I was receiving the above error when I ran a script through Bash. I had no idea that I should have been editing:
My students are confused because suddenly there is a box popping up on Acuity when they go to schedule a class that asks them to choose a timezone. I've explained that they just need to click one and then it will continue, but I'd rather turn this function off. Any ideas?
I hate this timezone option! When my clients are trying to schedule, they do NOT UNDERSTAND that button, and I have to continually answer emails that they are not able to schedule the class--because they don't know to click it to continue---JUST FIX THIS PLEASE--this is horrible!
This drop down feature for timezones is great for clients who offer virtual services but for businesses that have customers in one timezone or in person it is confusing and bad UX. So please look into an option to remove the drop down here.
Thank you ?
In case you aren't using any custom CSS, you can use the 'new scheduling experience' and remove this timezone selection. However, they told me that if we have any custom CSS, we are bound to have this section and also the drop-down selection for the slots on the calendar. It really sucks.
Damla, I use Acuity with Squarespace. I am not sure if I have the 'new scheduling experience'. I have tried everything I can see to get rid of this timezone selection box! I have had multiple emails with support and they just say there is no way to do it. How can I remove the timezone selection? Thank you!
This really depends on your server and your DB configuration. If they are in sync and are in the Brazil timezone then you can just use the :naive_datime or :naive_datetime_usec Ecto types and everything should be in your local timezone.
Whereas the local timezone will vary from browser to browser, the UTC time zone is guaranteed to be the same in every browser. It will also not experience daylight savings times. The UTC time zone was designed this way and it serves as a time zone that other time zones define themselves relative to.
The datetime column comes from an orders table and is called posted_date and it brings the data over as UTC from the remote server. There is a metadata table that relates to this table that outlines what each location's timezone ID is (i.e: "America/Chicago, America/New_York", etc). Shop and the Orders table relate to each other by a location_ID.
In my ETL, as you would imagine, I am bringing in both input datasets orders and shop and selecting the columns I need, for the sake of example, let us select location ID, posted_date from the orders table and location ID and timezone_ID from the shop table. My next goal is to try to convert each row on the orders table from UTC to the rows given timezone.
In the data flow, I tried using formula object and in it used convert_TZ(posted_date, "utc", `timezone_ID`) and when I run the preview I get an error. Any thoughts on why this would be erroring out? If not, and if you have solved this before in a DF, how did you do this?
You could create a simple lookup table that would have your timezone id name and have the number of hours from UTC that it is as another column and join that in your ETL, then use that offset in your convert_tz formula.
However if you stay on the GMT + 1 Europe timezone I believe it should shift automatically with the time change. I have to admit I haven't really paid attention, but that's the timezone I'm currently set to and I haven't noticed needing to change the hour back and forth with the change.
Thanks Genevieve but I don't think that does help, as if I select GMT+1 the time will either be incorrect for me for half of the year, or permanently 1hr out for the whole year. It is seemingly like Smartsheet timezone is not so much "where you are located" and updates the time accordingly, but "what time it is now", and as such I have to change it when we have daylight saving changes?
I'm a Confluence user and I created a Calendar. I'm in timezone GMT+1, however when creating the Calendar, it asked for options to set timezone and I picked IST, because 90% of our team is located in India. I only realized later that Confluence actually understands time zone challenges and it wouldn't have been necessary to set to IST. Also, it seems like events added appear with a weird time in IST (some 6 hours difference instead of 3:30 hours). So to resolve I would like to revert to my timezone for Calendar for the ease of adding events based on my timezone. How do I make a change to the Calendar timezone?
So this means I need to update the tasks whenever the timezone changes, but also whenever the offset of the timezone changes (due to daylight savings). I can either do that or run the query manually once per day.
I guess I have a pretty clear picture on how to proceed.
We were able to make it work with cron option so that local timezone is respected. However there is a bug so on first time, the task runs at UTC. From second time on, it will run at the correct time (timezone-aware).
By using the
option location = timezone.location(name: "Europe/Amsterdam")
the today() function started to use the local time, so the offset can be 0 (and hopefully does not have to be changed when switching between summer/winter time).
As an aside, for new dashboard tile creations, I also see an empty line initially selected in the UI for that dashboard time zone. It shows UTC prior to clicking, but when I select it, a blank line appears at the top and is selected. This line disappears after I select a time zone and go back into the dropdown to select another timezone.
The TZUpdater tool is provided to allow you to update installed Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) software with more recent timezone data, to accommodate daylight saving time (DST) changes in different countries. Oracle relies on the timezone data publicly available through IANA's Time Zone Database.
Oracle recommends that you use the latest Oracle Java SE platform JDK or JRE update release as the preferred means of delivering both timezone data updates and other product improvements, such as security fixes. To see which JDK or JRE update release incorporates the updated timezone data for your locale, see Timezone Data Versions in the JRE Software. However, if you are unable to use Oracle's latest JDK or JRE update release or if the timezone data on the latest release is not the most current one available, the TZUpdater tool provides a means of updating timezone data while leaving other system configuration and dependencies unchanged.
To update timezone data successfully, you should ensure that you have sufficient privileges to modify the JDK_HOME /jre/lib or JRE_HOME /lib directory. If you do not have sufficient privileges to modify these directories, contact your system administrator.
Run the current version of TZUpdater, with the -f force option to reapply the timezone update to a previously updated JRE software instance. The update will take place, and the additional package resolution commands will be executed. The update must be executed as the root user and is relevant to the global zone only in a Solaris 10 system.
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