It is summer time again

[henk_stobbe]

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

[yanezza · Accepted solution]

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. 

let localDate = new Date();
 

let dateOptions = { timeZone: 'Europe/Rome' };
let localDateString = localDate.toLocaleDateString('en-US', dateOptions);
let localTimeString = localDate.toLocaleTimeString('en-US', dateOptions);
 

console.log(`Date: ${localDateString}`);
console.log(`Time: ${localTimeString}`);

[henk_stobbe]

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

[ChristopherHejl · Accepted solution]

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:

{{ now('Europe/Vienna').strftime("%b %d %Y") }}

[henk_stobbe]

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