How to generate begin and end dates in UTC?

Question

Hi,

I am planning to call a survey monkey restful API to collect the data, But the API  accepts the date arguments in the following UTC format.

YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+HH:MM

As I want to schedule this API every day, I wan to generate current day begin and end dates in the above format.

I have created 2018-08-29 00:00:00  and 2018-08-29 23:59:59 dates and called DateTimeToUTC(dt) on these begin and end dates. But the result format is not as above.

Any ideas on how to generate dates in the above format?

CharlieS · Accepted Answer

Maybe this is a crude solution, but could you just build the "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS" string with the DateTime functions, then convert to a string and replace the space with a "T"?

Alteryx Formula:

replace(tostring(DateTimeFormat(DateTimeToday(),"%Y-%m-%d %T")),' ','T')

Result:

2018-08-29T00:00:00

ivoller · Accepted Answer

I think @CharlieS is probably on to something.

I assumed that you wanted to calculate the TZD and use that in the final output. That involves calculating the difference in the UTC and the original date and then doing some formatting to get the HH:MM part correct. See below for (probably over complex) approach