datetime_local_to_utc()
Applies to: ✅ Microsoft Fabric ✅ Azure Data Explorer ✅ Azure Monitor ✅ Microsoft Sentinel
Converts local datetime to UTC datetime using a time-zone specification.
Syntax
datetime_local_to_utc(
from,
timezone)
Learn more about syntax conventions.
Parameters
Name | Type | Required | Description |
---|---|---|---|
from | datetime |
✔️ | The local datetime to convert. |
timezone | string |
✔️ | The timezone of the desired datetime. The value must be one of the supported timezones. |
Returns
A UTC datetime that corresponds the local datetime in the specified timezone
.
Example
datatable(local_dt: datetime, tz: string)
[ datetime(2020-02-02 20:02:20), 'US/Pacific',
datetime(2020-02-02 20:02:20), 'America/Chicago',
datetime(2020-02-02 20:02:20), 'Europe/Paris']
| extend utc_dt = datetime_local_to_utc(local_dt, tz)
Output
local_dt | tz | utc_dt |
---|---|---|
2020-02-02 20:02:20.0000000 | Europe/Paris | 2020-02-02 19:02:20.0000000 |
2020-02-02 20:02:20.0000000 | America/Chicago | 2020-02-03 02:02:20.0000000 |
2020-02-02 20:02:20.0000000 | US/Pacific | 2020-02-03 04:02:20.0000000 |
Note
Normally there is a 1:1 mapping between UTC and local time, however there is a time ambiguity near the DST transition. Translating from local to UTC and then back to local may produce an hour offset between two local datetime values if the clocks were advanced due to DST.
range Local from datetime(2022-03-27 01:00:00.0000000) to datetime(2022-03-27 04:00:00.0000000) step 1h
| extend UTC=datetime_local_to_utc(Local, 'Europe/Brussels')
| extend BackToLocal=datetime_utc_to_local(UTC, 'Europe/Brussels')
| extend diff=Local-BackToLocal
Local | UTC | BackToLocal | diff |
---|---|---|---|
2022-03-27 02:00:00.0000000 | 2022-03-27 00:00:00.0000000 | 2022-03-27 01:00:00.0000000 | 01:00:00 |
2022-03-27 01:00:00.0000000 | 2022-03-27 00:00:00.0000000 | 2022-03-27 01:00:00.0000000 | 00:00:00 |
2022-03-27 03:00:00.0000000 | 2022-03-27 01:00:00.0000000 | 2022-03-27 03:00:00.0000000 | 00:00:00 |
2022-03-27 04:00:00.0000000 | 2022-03-27 02:00:00.0000000 | 2022-03-27 04:00:00.0000000 | 00:00:00 |
Related content
- To convert from UTC to local, see datetime_utc_to_local()
- Timezones
- List of supported timezones
- format_datetime()