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tracmonali
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Posted - 04/15/2012 :  15:22:00  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hello,

I wish to have one of my date columns to adjust with dst and utc and populate in computed columns. For ex: during dst the date col has to be pushed back to 6 hrs else 5 hrs.

set @timediff = datediff(hh, col1, getutcdate()) this col1 is from table

select col1, (computed col) col2 = case (@timediff)
case '5' then col1 date is pushed back 5 hrs
case '6' then col1 date is pushed back 6 hrs
from table
Any help appreciated?

visakh16
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Posted - 04/15/2012 :  16:50:38  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
see


http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1372/daylight-savings-time-functions-in-sql-server/

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tracmonali
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Posted - 04/15/2012 :  17:27:12  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks. but I do not wish any start date and end date of DST. All I want is col1 in my above query is logdate (that is populated using GMT) and the computed date will be wrt to DST. ALso this will be in a stored procedure. SO could I request for something simpler, which can be computed in 1 select stmt.
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visakh16
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Posted - 04/15/2012 :  17:31:23  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
then what should be using is datetimeoffset

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sunitabeck
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Posted - 04/15/2012 :  17:55:29  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
DATETIMEOFFSET is not daylight savings time-aware. If you want to calculate the offset for the current time, you can use this:
SELECT DATEDIFF(hour,GETDATE(),GETUTCDATE())
In US Central Time Zone, it will return 5 hours during daylight savings time period and 6 during standard time period.

If you are trying to calculate historical data, you will need something like they have in the link that Visakh posted earlier. However, the code in there is incorrect for dates earlier than 2007. An act of Congress messed it up for dates earlier than 2007. (Yes, I realize that last sentence is stating the obvious about US Congress).
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tracmonali
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Posted - 04/15/2012 :  18:42:12  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks a lot sunitabeck. your DATETIMEOFFSET and historical data information is helpful.
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