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Converts Datetime value in specified time zone to corresponding value in UTC time zone. Input can be a column of Datetime values, a literal Datetime value, or a function returning Datetime values.

Inputs with time zone offsets are invalid.
Specified time zone must be a string literal of one of the support time zone values. For more information, see Supported Time Zone Values.

Column reference values:

converttoutc(myTimestamp,'US/Mountain')

Output: Returns the UTC values of the myTimestamp converted from US Mountain time zone.

converttoutc(date, 'enum-timezone')

Argument	Required?	Data Type	Description
date	Y	datetime	Name of Datetime column, Datetime literal, or function returning a Datetime value.
enum-timezone-string	Y	string	Case-sensitive string literal value corresponding to the source time zone.

date

Name of a column containing Datetime values, a literal Datetime value, or a function returning Datetime values to convert.

Tip: Use the DATEFORMAT function to wrap values into acceptable formats. See DATEFORMAT Function.

If an input value is invalid for Datetime data type, a null value is returned.

Column references with time zone offsets are invalid.
Missing values for this function in the source data result in missing values in the output.
Multiple columns and wildcards are not supported.

Required?	Data Type	Example Value
Yes	Datetime (column reference, function, or literal)	sourceTime

enum-timezone-string

String literal value for the time zone from which to convert.

NOTE: These values are case-sensitive.

Example values:

'America/Puerto_Rico'
'US/Eastern'
'US/Central'
'US/Mountain'
'US/Pacific'
'US/Alaska'
'US/Hawaii'

For more information on supported time formatting strings, see Supported Data Types.

date

enum-timezone-string

Example - Time zone conversion