UtcOffset Procedure

Calculates the difference between UTC and another time zone for a particular local time.

Declaration

function UtcOffset(

dateTime as DateTime, timeZone as TimeZone

) as TimeSpan

TimeSpan — 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