UTC Timestamp

[Regina McKeon]

Good evening!
First post so please bear with me :) We are FTP-ing a file from the mainframe and the file name is required to contain a UTC timestamp.

The FTP command will only accept ESP variables to construct the UTC timestamp, but so far we've only been able to obtain current date/time. Is there a simple way to use ESP variables to get a UTC value? example: file name now is "Outages_20190709173601" but should be "Outages_20190709213601"

Thank you,
Regina 

[Lucy Zhang]

Hi Regina,

You may try with GENTIME, like below in the related job definition:
GENTIME LL REALNOW UTC

Then use %LLYEAR%LLMM%LLDD%LLTIME for the date/time stamp on the file name.

Hope it helps,

Lucy

[Lucy Zhang]

Please ignore my previous post.

Actually it won't help. Adding UTC will treat the REALNOW local time as the UTC, and translate it to local time.

Sorry about that.

Lucy

[Regina McKeon]

Thanks so much, Lucy. So is there really no way to get a UTC date/time? This is what we use now: 

'Outages_!CURYYMMDD!RTIME!ESPASS..json'

[Lucy Zhang]

Hi Regina,

Sorry. Currently ESP will convert a time with timezone to local time, but it doesn't convert local time to time in a different timezone (like UTC).

I can't think of a better way than below:
GENTIME LL REALNOW PLUS 5 HOURS

Then use %LLTIME. Note: you will need to add the IF logic, since if it's not daylight saving time, then it should be 4 hours instead of 5.

Lucy