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karuna
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Posted - 2007-06-11 : 12:41:39
Is there any in-built function in SQL Server 2005, which will convert a given date time to a specified timezone? or to UTC?.

Getutcdate() just returns UTC date for the current date time. I did notice few topics in the forum on this. I'm just wondering if something has changed in Sql Server 2005.

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spirit1
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11752 Posts

Posted - 2007-06-11 : 14:35:44
nope.

you can use datediff in hours between the getdate and getutcdate
but that's about it from the sql server's point of view.

maybe this will help you:
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenp/archive/2006/05/21/9926.aspx

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karuna
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Posted - 2007-06-11 : 14:51:56
Thanks.

Looks like Oracle has this kind of options, how did SQL Server missed it :(

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Karunakaran
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2007-06-11 : 14:59:12
Search the forums for my timezone conversion function. It's name is udf_Timezone_Conversion. We have made updates to it for the new DST changes, but the old version should at least give you a start.

Tara Kizer
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/
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karuna
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582 Posts

Posted - 2007-06-11 : 15:04:55
quote:
Originally posted by tkizer

Search the forums for my timezone conversion function. It's name is udf_Timezone_Conversion. We have made updates to it for the new DST changes, but the old version should at least give you a start.

Tara Kizer
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/



Yeah, I did saw that function earlier when I was searching.
I was just wondering if something had changed in SQL Server 2005, which I might have missed.

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Karunakaran
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