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Understanding of Date formatting and

Converting values in different timezones
in Pega PRPC
Published on August 19, 2017

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PEGA CPDC, CSSA, CSA and CBA

Pega is a robust BPM tool which provides many OOTB (out of the box) activities and
functionalities to create and manage business processes.

I have worked on multiple development and support project and during these times I
have come across many a times business process requires date and time to be
formatted and should be passed on to downstream application in certain format or
display on UI in a given format or store in a format in DB.

For eg, upstream application sent values of a

date in 20170111 values but while sending
values to downstream application business
wants these values to appear in this format
"January 11, 2017"

I have observed that many people uses a string operation on date property and try to
give in a format in which business is asking for or do customize coding for converting
values for a specific timezone.

This can be avoided if we simply apply logic and format defined in Pega.

This is not a new thing but developers overdo a thing which can be solved easily
and without any customization

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Extract of Pega Help Article -

A Java date pattern is a sequence of one or more letters that controls the presentation
of a date, or date and time. For example, the pattern MM/dd/yyyy is a request for a date
to be presented in the format 07/04/1976, for July 4, 1976.

The standard function rule FormatDateTime() in the Pega-RULES DateTime library can
convert a DateTime property value according to a Java date pattern. The Trend feature
in summary view rules accepts Java data patterns for the trend DateTimeproperty.

These letters are most often used in a date pattern. Case is significant.

y — Year as a number

M — Month, for example July, 07 or 7

w — week in year, as a number

D — Day in year, as a number

d — day in month

H — hour in day (0-23)

Time zones and locales can also be parameters to the FormatDateTime() function, so
that the pattern "yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' HH:mm:ss" with time zone 08 (Pacific) and locale
EN can produce the value 2006.07.04 at 12:08:56 PDT.

For a comprehensive description of pattern syntax, consult a Java language reference for
the SimpleDateFormat class.

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Elanchezhian Duraikannu 7mo

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Jeff Hurst 7mo

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Consider explicit, International date formats
#dd0MMyyyy 21/008/2017
#0MMddyyyy 008.21.2017
#yyyy0MMdd 2017-008-21… See more
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