On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Fred Taylor <fbtaylor@gmail.com> wrote:

> Any body know of a way to intercept the returns from DATE(), DATETIME(),

> TIME() etc. for different timezones WITHOUT changing the Windows setting

> for timezone?

>

> We've moved a bunch of applications to the cloud and now have users

> accessing from multiple timezones, but the application wasn't built to

> handle that.  We can't just change the Windows timezone, as that would

> confuse the users with their Outlook calendars, or any other time based

> applications.  There are 5 applications and they would have about 9,000

> places each in the code would need to be changed if we have to change the

> calls to DATE(), DATETIME(), etc. to use a different function.  Most

> definitely not looking forward to 45K changes to code!

>

> Thanks for any insight in to this (huge) dilemma.

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<http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/081507-1.aspx>

Universal time is actually the basis of all time and from there the

machine will adjust it to local. :) If you do a test to catch

getdate() say a million times and then use getUTCDate() it will be

faster with the second.

SELECT toUTC([MyDateColumn], [MyTimeZoneColumn]) FROM [MyTable]

here is a function to do it in vb or C#

<http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/31146/SQL-2005-Time-Zone-Conversion-Functions>

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