isInSchedule and GlideDateTime not working as intended

[nate_engstrom]

Hello SN Community,

I am currently trying to resolve an issue regarding sending a notification only within a scheduled window. The client only wants to receive emails between Mon-Fri 8am-6pm. In the code I subtract 5 hours to compensate for the UTC time. However, the isInSchedule resolves to false.

Here is the code I am working with along with the results.

var schedule = new GlideSchedule('cbef152d2bd8660049fe199667da1578', 'US/Eastern');
var date = gs.nowDateTime();
gs.log("NOW DATE FIELD : " + date);
var gdt = new GlideDateTime();
gdt.setDisplayValue(date);
var sub = new GlideTime();
sub.setValue("05:00:00");
gdt.subtract(sub);
gs.log("GLIDE DATE TIME: " + gdt);
if (schedule.isInSchedule(gdt)){
gs.log("RESOLVED TRUE DATE : " + gdt);
answer = true;
}
else{
gs.log("RESOLVED FALSE DATE : " + gdt);
answer = false;
}

Output:

*** Script: NOW DATE FIELD : 2017-12-12 10:27:02 AM

*** Script: GLIDE DATE TIME: 2017-12-12 10:27:02

*** Script: RESOLVED FALSE DATE : 2017-12-12 10:27:02

As you can see, the script is resolving to false even though this date and time are within the desired schedule. I have checked many other community posts regarding this problem before but they did not work for me. Does anyone have a solution to this? Does this have something to do with the way I set up my GlideDateTime object?

I am working with a Helsinki instance as well if that helps at all.

Thank you SN Community!

[dvp]

Can you Try this

var schedule = new GlideSchedule('cbef152d2bd8660049fe199667da1578', 'US/Eastern'); 


var date = gs.nowDateTime(); 
gs.log("NOW DATE FIELD : " + date); 


if (schedule.isInSchedule(date)){ 
gs.log("RESOLVED TRUE DATE : " + gdt); 
answer = true; 
} 
else{ 
gs.log("RESOLVED FALSE DATE : " + gdt); 
answer = false; 
} 

[nate_engstrom]

Unfortunately, isInSchedule() does not accept strings which is what gs.nowDateTime() returns.

[dvp]

replace var date = gs.nowDateTime();  

with

var date = new GlideDateTime(gs.nowDateTime())