I'm connecting to an MS SQL database via Power Query (Version: 2.10.3598.81) in Excel 2010.
My dates are stored in UTC in the database, however I would like to show them as local in the spreadsheet.
DateTimeZone.From() - converts to a DateTimeZone type but assumes the input date is in the Local timezone. This is the exact opposite of what I want.
DateTimeZone.ToLocal() - gives an error, I think because there's no timezone information in the source date.
Local in my case is Australian EST, however it would be great if Excel just picked up the local timezone. (It appears to do this already)
I think I've discovered the answer.
The function DateTime.AddZone() which I thought was used to convert between timezones is actually used to add timezone information to an existing date. If your date is UTC you would use DateTime.AddZone([date_created],0) and if your date was already in AEST then you would use DateTime.AddZone([date_created],10).
So I can now use:
DateTimeZone.ToLocal(DateTime.AddZone([date_created_UTC],0))
and Power Query will correctly convert my date created from UTC to AEST (or whatever is local).
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We have our time saved without a timezone offset inside our SQL Server database. The time is actually Central Europe Standard Time but due to no timezone offset in the time string it is treated as UTC. This now creates a bunch of problems regarding daylight saving times.
My question would be: is there a way to retroactively convert the Time with offset to the correct CEST Time.
For example my time string in my database is '2022-10-30 02:00' and should be converted to '2022-10-30 00:00+2' as well as '2022-10-30 03:00' to '2022-10-30 01:00+1'.
There is an option to convert a datetime object to another timezone with "AT TIME ZONE" but this didn't help much due to the date objects being treated as UTC in the database, but we need to convert them to the UTC+[offset] format. Also due to the daylight saving time changing timezone offsets during the year, we can't subtract the timezone offsets with a set value.
I would like to convert dates I receive from timezone 'Europe/Warsaw' to UTC. I have tried to find suitable libraries in C to create a Datastage routine. I did not find anything that would allow to flexibly change the source timezone keeping in mind the change from summer to winter time (daylight). Another way is to use a database function, e.g. in DB2, but currently I am trying to solve the problem without creating stored procedures. Anyone solved a similar problem?
I get the input date in the format 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS',
Input Timezone = 'Europe/Warsaw',
Output Timezone = 'UTC'.
I would like to create a solution that would allow me to swap e.g. Input Zone, something passed by parameter e.g. 'Europe/London'. I cannot rely on the system time unfortunately.
I can't find a way of getting a date from Azure Search using only the date.
The dates in the index are like: "2019-10-15T18:00:00Z","2019-10-22T18:00:00Z","2019-10-29T18:00:00Z"
If I try StartDate/any(s: s eq 2019-10-15T18:00:00Z) I get results
But with StartDate/any(s: s eq 2019-10-15) nothing comes up
I have tried usin the date OData function like so: StartDate/any(s: date(s) eq 2019-10-15) but I get an error 'Function 'date' is not supported'.
Is there any way to get dates without using the time part?
The use of date literals in filters in Azure Search will no longer be supported starting in api-version 2019-05-06-Preview. This was an "accidental feature" that we never intended to support. The reason you don't get any results is because the implicit conversion from Edm.Date to Edm.DateTimeOffset assumes a time of midnight UTC, whereas the dates in your index are 6 PM UTC.
We recommend explicitly providing the time and offset (or Z for UTC) in filters to avoid this problem.
If you want Azure Search to natively support fields and filters of type Edm.Date, please vote for this User Voice suggestion.
Date and time values represented in the OData V4 format: yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.fffZ or yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.fff[+|-]HH:mm. Precision of DateTimeOffset fields is limited to milliseconds. If you upload DateTimeOffset values with sub-millisecond precision, the value returned will be rounded up to milliseconds.
When you upload DateTimeOffset values with time zone information to your index, Azure Search normalizes these values to UTC.
Refer to supported data types in Azure search.
In which format I should pass date field to parameter to be able to choose date picker insted of list?
My query returns date (date format) and I cast it in a different ways (yyyy-dd-MM, yyyy-MM-dd, dd-MM-yyyy, ...) in SSRS:
=Format(Fields!StartDate2.Value,"yyyy-dd-MM")
I use this field in parameter, but I always get error:
An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted)
The property ‘ValidValues’ of report parameter ‘STARTDATE’ doesn't
have the expected type. (rsParameterPropertyTypeMismatch)
When I just passing result of query (date format), I have list:
even If chose Date/Time:
Answer
The reason you are getting this problem is because the Language/Culture/Date Format on your environments are not similar.
SQL by DEFAULT uses en-US and your local pc uses your local Language/Culture/Date Format.
there is your problem, instead of converting the value of your dates to your local
Language/Culture/Date Format, convert it to en-US
"MM-dd-yyyy"
Answer explained
to put this in perspective you are sending a SQL server with the date format
"MM/dd/yyyy" the value "2017/16/03".
so the server thinks "this guy is telling me to search for the 2017th month, 16th day of the year 03"
new Date(moment().year(), moment().month(), moment().day(), vm.newHearing().HearingTime().split(":")[0], vm.newHearing().HearingTime().split(":")[1]).toLocaleString()
The client side value for a date column is 11/5/2013 10:15:00 AM. The time is selected from HTML5 time input control.
When I check in database after saving the entity, it shows me incorrect time value:
11/5/2013 3:15:00 PM
It appears that you are using moment.js, which is fine except you aren't using it properly
Try this instead:
moment(vm.newHearing().HearingTime(), "HH:mm").toISOString()
That will pass the selected time, on the current day, from the user's local time zone, converted to UTC time and in ISO format.
Now that might not be exactly what you want to do. Depending on your requirements, you might instead want this:
moment.utc(vm.newHearing().HearingTime(), "HH:mm").toISOString()
Which is almost the same thing except that it assumes the input time is already in UTC.
Or you might want this:
moment(vm.newHearing().HearingTime(), "HH:mm").format("YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss")
This one doesn't try to convert to UTC at all.
For all choices, I emit the date string in ISO8601 format. Since you are sending it back to the server, this is the best choice. When you used toLocaleString, that generates a format that is appropriat for display only.