Make Dynamic Date/Time Functions Respond to the Company Time Zone

nick_harper

The dynamic date and time functions—such as CURRENT_DATE() and NOW()—are represented in UTC, regardless of the Company Time Zone in your Admin Settings. This creates a problem during the hours of the day when the UTC date and your company time zone's dates are unaligned.

For instance, say you have a Beast Mode that uses CURRENT_DATE() - 1 to calculate Yesterday's sales. In Eastern Time (UTC -5), at 7:00pm, UTC changes to the next day. Therefore, the Beast Mode then references the next day (today instead of yesterday), and will show wrong or no data.

Ideally, the dynamic date/time functions should reflect your Company Time Zone rather than UTC. Or this could be an admin setting, like a checkbox that states "Represent dynamic date/time functions in the Company Time Zone". Or there should be two sets of functions, such as CURRENT_DATE() and UTC_CURRENT_DATE().

Kyrsten

What a great idea! Thanks for sharing, Nick. This would be very helpful for my Domo projects as well.