TimeZoneFromName Procedure

Looks up a TimeZone by name. Call AvailableTimeZones to get a list of all possible time zone names.

Declaration

function TimeZoneFromName(name as String) as TimeZone

name as String — An acronym like UTC and EST, a location like America/Chicago, or a generic GMT offset like Etc/GMT+4.

TimeZone — A time span representing the time zone's offset from UTC.

Code

dim tz = TimeZoneFromName("America/New_York")

dim dt = DateTimeFromParts(2021, 3, 13, 0, 0, 0, 0)

dim offset = UtcOffset(dt, tz)

print TotalHours(offset)

Output

-5