topic Re: It is summer time again in Automations

It is summer time again

henk_stobbe — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 18:18:02 GMT

Hello,

I really wat to use the local time in my workflow, new Date() always returns UTC.

Who knows how to do this?

KR Henk

Re: It is summer time again

yanezza — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:27:12 GMT

Hi,
Are you talking about the JS code in workflow? The "new Date()" seems to be javascript sintax

Anyway, after getting the date in UTC, convert it in your timezone when you are getting the string.

Re: It is summer time again

henk_stobbe — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 09:21:05 GMT

Cool, thanks. Yep I am using this in a WF😊

Re: It is summer time again

ChristopherHejl — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 07:48:38 GMT

You can also use the now() expression Expression reference — Dynatrace Docs
This supports timezones, returns a datetime object, which you can use to do timecalculation in your expression as well like so https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/automation-workflow-expression-reference#timedelta and you can serialize it into any kind of date/time format you like, eg:

Re: It is summer time again

henk_stobbe — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:42:37 GMT

Both,

Thanks for your reply's.

I did selected (before reading your great suggestions):

const myDate = new Date();
let localDateString = myDate.toLocaleString("en-US", { timeZone: "Europe/Amsterdam" });

After this I converted back to an object:

let localDate = new Date(localDateString);

so later in the script I can use the well known methods like localDate.getHours();

Again thanks for your help!

KR Henk