timezone-from-dateTime

The timezone portion of a date/time

Description

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

Parameters

Description

arg:dateTime()

Examples

XPath

Results

Explanation

timezone-from-dateTime(xs:dateTime(‘2006-08-15T10:30:23-05:00’))

-PT5H

timezone-from-dateTime(xs:dateTime(‘2006-08-15T10:30:23’))

()

regardless of the implicit time zone

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