# Is there easy way to convert datetime variable (in UTC) to text field in specific time zone? **URL:** \ **Category:** Nextworld Platform\ **Created:** [August 26, 2026, 8:21pm UTC](https://community.nextw.com/t/is-there-easy-way-to-convert-datetime-variable-in-utc-to-text-field-in-specific-time-zone/2195 "2026-08-26T20:21:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AlecC](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.nextw.com/alecc/32/163_2.png) [@AlecC](https://community.nextw.com/u/AlecC)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 8:21pm UTC](https://community.nextw.com/t/is-there-easy-way-to-convert-datetime-variable-in-utc-to-text-field-in-specific-time-zone/2195/1 "2026-08-26T20:21:00Z")
I want what is showing as ‘2026-08-26T18:25:46.977Z’ (UTC datetime) to instead be ‘2026-08-26 11:25:46 US/Pacific’ when passed in a payload to message event from a logic block. ---
**Author:** ![kendra.b](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.nextw.com/kendra.b/32/110_2.png) [@kendra.b](https://community.nextw.com/u/kendra.b)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.nextw.com/t/is-there-easy-way-to-convert-datetime-variable-in-utc-to-text-field-in-specific-time-zone/2195/2 "2026-08-26T20:40:32Z")
I believe you want DateTime Decomposition - passing the datetime and a constant for your specific time zone as input. That action splits the output values into Date, Time, and TZ though and you are wanting them as a single string, so couple it with Concatenate Text to chain them back together with spaces. I haven’t done this exactly, so add a grain of salt. ---
**Author:** ![AlecC](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.nextw.com/alecc/32/163_2.png) [@AlecC](https://community.nextw.com/u/AlecC)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 8:55pm UTC](https://community.nextw.com/t/is-there-easy-way-to-convert-datetime-variable-in-utc-to-text-field-in-specific-time-zone/2195/3 "2026-08-26T20:55:39Z")
This is exactly the path I have gone down but the challenge is that DateTimeDecomposition puts date and time into Date and Time type variables / fields. When running in debug, I see that my variable IHULastModifiedTime is seemingly some type of epoch value ({“IHULastModifiedTime”:41146977}). Getting that time variable converted to a human readable hh:mm:ss seems to be the missing piece. ---
**Author:** ![kendra.b](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.nextw.com/kendra.b/32/110_2.png) [@kendra.b](https://community.nextw.com/u/kendra.b)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2026, 3:29pm UTC](https://community.nextw.com/t/is-there-easy-way-to-convert-datetime-variable-in-utc-to-text-field-in-specific-time-zone/2195/4 "2026-08-27T15:29:59Z")
Alright. Let’s run another route. Is PDT the tenant’s default TZ? What does Convert To Text action give you for the datetime? ---
**Author:** ![ian.p](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.nextw.com/ian.p/32/427_2.png) [@ian.p](https://community.nextw.com/u/ian.p)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2026, 2:42pm UTC](https://community.nextw.com/t/is-there-easy-way-to-convert-datetime-variable-in-utc-to-text-field-in-specific-time-zone/2195/5 "2026-08-28T14:42:59Z")
The number that is being displayed for the Time is the number of milliseconds elapsed since midnight. When I reproduced this, the `Convert to Text` for the `Time` isn’t working, which to me seems like a bug. In the below example, instead of the action converting `27465237` to `07:37:45` it is converting it to `""`. Here’s the logic I wrote: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/nextworld/original/2X/6/62dc4f64e1df93f97ddff3cc25b4215e973f29f3.png) And here’s what it’s outputting: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/nextworld/original/2X/0/0f1d5a04d47453fc73ae5fa5acd2e71b9aa200bf.png)