Globalization - Time Zone Support

[Jon]

Team,

Does Telerik Reporting have support for local time zones?

For example...
We are using Telerik Reporting and our data for a report includes date time (e.g. date time email was sent), does Telerik Reporting provide the ability to recognize the System.TimeZoneInfo.Local and adjust all date time data accordingly?

Thanks,
Jon 

[Steve]

Hello Jon,

There is no out of the box support for such feature in Telerik Reporting and providing this support is up to the developer.

Best wishes,
Steve
the Telerik team

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[Iman]

Hi telerik guys,

Thanks for your amazing produces. As this question asked in 2009 , and we are now in 2014, I wanna know is Time zone supported out of the box in telerik reporting now?
All my date times in database saved in UTC , but my reports should be generated and date times shown depending on time zone.

[Nasko]

Hello Iman,

As Steve have said, it is up to the developer to provide a mechanism for recognizing the time zone and accounting for that later in the report. You can implement such mechanisms as a developer by reorganizing and modifying your data, before you pass it to the report.

Additionally, we provide a powerful tool in the form of User Functions which can help you write your own custom logic to show dates depending on the time zone.

Regards,
Nasko
Telerik

[ajpetersen]

I was looking for this same functionality and ​here's an example of how I implemented it.

public partial class Report​1 : Telerik.Reporting.Report
    {
        public Report1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        [Function(IsVisible = false)]
        public static DateTime ConvertDate(DateTime date)
        {
            return date.UtcToEasternTimeZone();
        }
    }

 

 Usage:

= ConvertDate(Fields.​CreatedDate)

 

 

Hope this helps,

Andrew