topic UTC function gives inaccurate time in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/UTC-function-gives-inaccurate-time/m-p/512654#M482930 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>I need more info on how to go about this problem.</P><P>I notice that when i display the UTC() as a text object in QVW file. It gives me -8 timezone.</P><P></P><P>FYI my PC is in GMT +8 and it also gives me the same value if i display timezone() function.</P><P></P><P>Now what i need to verify if it will affects the transaction date display?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:37:51 GMT rotero 2013-07-23T11:37:51Z UTC function gives inaccurate time https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/UTC-function-gives-inaccurate-time/m-p/512654#M482930 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>I need more info on how to go about this problem.</P><P>I notice that when i display the UTC() as a text object in QVW file. It gives me -8 timezone.</P><P></P><P>FYI my PC is in GMT +8 and it also gives me the same value if i display timezone() function.</P><P></P><P>Now what i need to verify if it will affects the transaction date display?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:37:51 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/UTC-function-gives-inaccurate-time/m-p/512654#M482930 rotero 2013-07-23T11:37:51Z Re: UTC function gives inaccurate time https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/UTC-function-gives-inaccurate-time/m-p/512655#M482931 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm afraid you don't understand what UTC is. See <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time">this article</A>. For all practical purposes UTC = GMT. So if you are in a GMT+8 timezone then UTC will show a time that's 8 hours earlier. Which is precisely what you're seeing. </P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:46:17 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/UTC-function-gives-inaccurate-time/m-p/512655#M482931 Gysbert_Wassenaar 2013-07-23T11:46:17Z