.. _timezone-from-date:

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timezone-from-date
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The timezone portion of a date

Description
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The fn:timezone-from-date function returns the time zone of an xs:date value, 
offset from UTC, as an xs:dayTimeDuration value between -PT14H and PT14H. If the 
time zone is UTC, the value PT0H is returned.

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   * - **Parameters**
     - **Description**
   * - arg:date()
     - 

Examples
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   * - **XPath**
     - **Results**
     - **Explanation**
   * - timezone-from-date(xs:date('2006-08-15-05:00'))
     - -PT5H
     - 
   * - timezone-from-date(xs:date('2006-08-15'))
     - ()
     - regardless of the implicit time zone

See Also
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* :ref:`timezone-from-time`.
* :ref:`timezone-from-dateTime`.
* :ref:`functx_timezone-from-duration`.