SystemDateToLocalDate

Converts a system datetime string to the local time of the current Marketing Cloud Engagement user.

The system time is North American Central Standard Time (UTC-6) without adjustments for daylight saving time. The local time is the time of your Marketing Cloud Engagement user account, which can be configured in Setup.

Availability

<table> <tr> <td>Marketing Cloud Engagement</td> <td>✅ Yes</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Marketing Cloud Next</td> <td>❌ No</td> </tr> </table>

Syntax

SystemDateToLocalDate(systemTime)

The SystemDateToLocalDate() function has one parameter:

systemTime (string): Required. The system time value that you want to convert to local time.

Usage

To use this function, pass it your current system time.

%%[
  Var @currentSystemTime
  Set @currentSystemTime = Now()
]%%
Local Time For User:  %%=SystemDateToLocalDate(@currentSystemTime)=%%

The system returns the local time based on the value contained in the @currentSystemTime variable.