Setting the date/time field value to some specific time in EST time zone

[Community Alums]

Hi All,

Currently our instance is in PST timezone. We have created a field on Incident form and I want to set the value as follows.

<Incident created date> <8 AM EST time zone>

which means, I want to convert 8 AM EST to PST and need to place that time value in that field.

Can anyone suggest me on this. Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Ganesh

[Basheer]

Hi @Community Alums 

Below is the script which can be useful for converting.

var dateTime = new GlideDateTime();
var targetTimezone = 'AST'; // provide the apt shortcut of timezone
var tz = Packages.java.util.TimeZone.getTimeZone(targetTimezone); 
dateTime .setTZ(tz);
var timeZoneOffSet = dateTime .getTZOffset();
dateTime .setNumericValue(dateTime .getNumericValue() + timeZoneOffSet);

[Laszlo Balla · Accepted solution]

Something like this might work too, depending your context (this is an example):

var est = Packages.java.util.TimeZone.getTimeZone('US/Eastern');
var pst = Packages.java.util.TimeZone.getTimeZone('US/Pacific');
var estGdt = new GlideDateTime();
estGdt.setTZ(est);

var pstGdt = new GlideDateTime();
pstGdt.setTZ(pst);

estGdt.setValue('2011-02-02 08:00:00');
gs.print('Original time: ' + estGdt);

pstGdt.setValue(estGdt);
pstGdt.addSeconds(10800); // add 3 hours
gs.print('PST time: ' + pstGdt);