Different time zone issue in scripting

[saba tanveer]

User timezone on instance is africa/johannesburg and I am working from Pakistan so when I am trying to write script to get current time it is giving me africa/johannesburg time. Is there any way to get the time where system operates automatically without mentioning timezone.

my code:

var g = new GlideDateTime();

gs.info(g.getDisplayValue());

[scott barnard1]

Hi Saba

Given the joburg time is +2

Try

var gdt = new GlideDateTime();
var gtime1 = new GlideTime();
gtime1.setValue("02:00:00");
gdt.add(gtime1);
gs.print(gdt);

[saba tanveer]

This code is giving me above result and in my clock time is 15:42

[scott barnard1]

Hi Saba

That's right.

var gdt = new GlideDateTime(); gives you the time at GMT

The rest then adds 2 hours to it. I add 2 hours because the timezone offset for Johannesburg is +2 

So the final value is the time in Johannesburg. If you want the local time in Lahore you would use +5 etc

docs are here

https://developer.servicenow.com/dev.do#!/reference/api/washingtondc/server_legacy/c_GlideDateTimeAP...

Regards

[Community Alums]

Hi @saba tanveer ,

You can use the below code & convert to PST

convertTimetoPST: function(dat){        
//convert date to PST timezone
        var time = new GlideDateTime(dat);
        var targetTimezone = 'PST'; // ensure you give correct timezone Abbreviation
        var tz = Packages.java.util.TimeZone.getTimeZone(targetTimezone);
        time.setTZ(tz);
        var timeZoneOffSet = time.getTZOffset();
        time.setNumericValue(time.getNumericValue() + timeZoneOffSet);
        return time;
},

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