Convert epoch time to date/time in users time zone

[Alamelu1]

The incoming payload to a transform script, has an attribute that is epoch time. I want to convert this to human readable date/time in users time zone and assign it to a field in the change record.How do I do it?

I tried the below,

var session = gs.getSession();

                    var tz = session.getTimeZoneName();

                    gs.info("User's Timezone: " + tz);

var now = new Date(timestamp); // here timestamp has the numeric epoch time from incoming payload

                        gs.info(now);

                        year = "" + now.getFullYear();

                        month = "" + (now.getMonth() + 1);

                        if (month.length == 1) {

                            month = "0" + month;

                        }

                        day = "" + now.getDate();

                        if (day.length == 1) {

                            day = "0" + day;

                        }

                        hour = "" + now.getHours();

                        if (hour.length == 1) {

                            hour = "0" + hour;

                        }

                        minute = "" + now.getMinutes();

                        if (minute.length == 1) {

                            minute = "0" + minute;

                        }

                        second = "" + now.getSeconds();

                        if (second.length == 1) {

                            second = "0" + second;

                        }

                        var starttime = year + "-" + month + "-" + day + " " + hour + ":" + minute + ":" + second;

                        gs.info("Start Time :" + starttime);

                       var userTime = new Date(timestamp).toLocaleString("en-US", {

                        timeZone: tz

                         });

                         userTime = new Date(userTime);

                          gs.info('Start Time in users timezone: ' + userTime.toLocaleString());

This was populating the field in change record with time in PST and not the user’s timezone.

[Chetan Mahajan]

Hello Alamelu,

Please try using GlideDateTime() as below

var epochTime = '1578912558000';
var gdt = new GlideDateTime();
gdt.setNumericValue(parseInt(epochTime));
gs.info('dt is ' + gdt.getDisplayValue()); // checking

field.setvalue('Field_Name',gdt);

please mark correct/Helpful if you get your solution

Thanks

[Mario Quinones1]

@Alamelu , This is an original correct answer, give credit to the original author

https://community.servicenow.com/community?id=community_question&sys_id=22a45c2bdbbad7c0e0e80b55ca96...

Please mark helpful or correct if this works for you

[Ankur Bawiskar · Accepted solution]

Hi,

you can update the script as this

var epochTime = parseInt(source.u_time);

var gdt = new GlideDateTime();

gdt.setNumericValue(epochTime);

target.setValue('targetField', gdt);

Regards
Ankur

[KishanGourav]

var epochTime = '1689076116';
var gdt = new GlideDateTime();
gdt.setNumericValue(epochTime * 1000);
gs.print('dt is ' + gdt.getValue());