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converttolocaltime - script and chart function

Converts a UTC or GMT timestamp to local time as a dual value. The place can be any of a number of cities, places and time zones around the world. 

Syntax:  

ConvertToLocalTime(timestamp [, place [, ignore_dst=false]])

Return data type: dual

Arguments:  

Arguments
Argument Description
timestamp The timestamp, or expression resolving to a timestamp, to convert.
place

A place or timezone from the table of valid places and timezones below. Alternatively, you can use GMT or UTC to define the local time. The following values and time offset ranges are valid:

  • GMT
  • GMT-12:00 - GMT-01:00
  • GMT+01:00 - GMT+14:00
  • UTC
  • UTC-12:00 - UTC-01:00
  • UTC+01:00 - UTC+14:00
Information noteYou can only use standard time offsets. It's not possible to use an arbitrary time offset, for example, GMT-04:27.
ignore_dst

Set to True to ignore DST (daylight saving time).

Set to False to adjust for daylight saving time.

Valid places and time zones
A-C D-K L-R S-Z
Abu Dhabi Darwin La Paz Samoa
Adelaide Dhaka Lima Santiago
Alaska Eastern Time (US & Canada) Lisbon Sapporo
Amsterdam Edinburgh Ljubljana Sarajevo
Arizona Ekaterinburg London Saskatchewan
Astana Fiji Madrid Seoul
Athens Georgetown Magadan Singapore
Atlantic Time (Canada) Greenland Mazatlan Skopje
Auckland Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin Melbourne Sofia
Azores Guadalajara Mexico City Solomon Is.
Baghdad Guam Mid-Atlantic Sri Jayawardenepura
Baku Hanoi Minsk St. Petersburg
Bangkok Harare Monrovia Stockholm
Beijing Hawaii Monterrey Sydney
Belgrade Helsinki Moscow Taipei
Berlin Hobart Mountain Time (US & Canada) Tallinn
Bern Hong Kong Mumbai Tashkent
Bogota Indiana (East) Muscat Tbilisi
Brasilia International Date Line West Nairobi Tehran
Bratislava Irkutsk New Caledonia Tokyo
Brisbane Islamabad New Delhi Urumqi
Brussels Istanbul Newfoundland Warsaw
Bucharest Jakarta Novosibirsk Wellington
Budapest Jerusalem Nuku'alofa West Central Africa
Buenos Aires Kabul Osaka Vienna
Cairo Kamchatka Pacific Time (US & Canada) Vilnius
Canberra Karachi Paris Vladivostok
Cape Verde Is. Kathmandu Perth Volgograd
Caracas Kolkata Port Moresby Yakutsk
Casablanca Krasnoyarsk Prague Yerevan
Central America Kuala Lumpur Pretoria Zagreb
Central Time (US & Canada) Kuwait Quito -
Chennai Kyiv Riga -
Chihuahua - Riyadh -
Chongqing - Rome -
Copenhagen - - -

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