Sachin Hatikankan

Sachin Hatikankan

UiPath Timezone class implementation

  • In this blog, lets discuss about a scenario where you are suppose to check the date and time in the bot machine where the bot is running.

  • You need to get the date and time because you want to stop the bot once it has reached a particular time and get the output summary file report generated. (Eg.; 9:30 PM IST)

  • Seemingly , straightforward scenario if the machine were bot is running is in the same timezone where the business team is working.

  • If the bot is in the same timezone then DateTime.Now is what everyone will be using to get the current date time and let bot perform the subsequent actions required.

  • However, when the bot machine is not in the same timezone then business might face issue because summary report will not be sent by the bot at 9:30 PM IST because the machine where the bot is running is in UTC timezone and the time in that machine is different.

  • In this case, bot will send the output summary file only when 9:30 PM UTC time has been reached.

  • Also, keeping in mind the constraint is UiPath orchestrator infrastructure set up is in UTC timezone which RPA CoE team prefers and updating timezone and date time is not an option.

  • To overcome such a problem, we can use timezone class available in .Net

  • Refer the code implementation of the timezone class and its usage in UiPath which provides the answer to the above scenario. Refer the xaml files here

Post reference:

  • https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.timezone?view=net-7.0
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