Can I change the timezone on my templated documents?

Jenn Dixon
Jenn Dixon
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Yes! When you are printing something like:

{createdAt}

it will return a datetime object of default display format.

 

Understanding the default timestamp format

When a timestamp appears in a generated document (for example, in an electronic signature's "Date" column or in a "Generated by Ketryx" footer), the default format looks like this:

2024-07-27 14:32Z

The Z at the end stands for "Zulu time", which is a standard designation for UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). All timestamps in Ketryx-generated documents are recorded in UTC by design — the Z suffix explicitly indicates this to the reader.

If you need timestamps to be displayed in a different timezone, see the section below on customizing the datetime format in your document template.


Changing the timezone on templated documents

You can specify a different format for the datetime object such as:

{createdAt | datetime: "yyyy-MM-dd":"US/Eastern"}

to return the object in a specific format based on Unicode date format string ("yyyy-MM-dd" in the example above) and/or a tz timezone ID ("US/Eastern" in the example above). More information can be found in this section on docs.ketryx.com.

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