System.date.now Timezone

[pturmel]

But system.date.now() IS UTC. If you need to convert strings to/from UTC everywhere in your gateway, set your gateway timezone to UTC. If you need to use a variety of time zones in gateway scripts (and Perspective scripts), you will need to ask java to render in a specific time zone instead of the gateway timezone. Some techniques:

Ignition Perspective Page to show the client System date and time

Sure. I recommend DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(). But I would move the complexity to a project script module with a DateTimeFormatter instance with your preferred pattern saved as a top level variable. Like so, perhaps: from java.time import ZoneId from java.time.format import DateTimeFormatter defaultFormatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm") def zonedFormat(ts, zoneid, format=None): formatter = defaultFormatter if format is None else DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(format) r…

Let me emphasize what I wrote in an earlier comment: java.util.Date objects are UTC milliseconds under the hood. They already are UTC. Java converts them to strings for display in the JVM's timezone. When a java.util.Date object is serialized and transmitted to a client or designer, it travels as UTC. And then gets stringified in a local time zone wherever the stringification happens.