How to get tomorrow's date at a specific time, based on current date?

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Posted on 21 Sep 2022 02:37:33 by Community Power Pla...

Hi, I'm relatively new to using Microsoft Flow.

Let's say the current date is 21/09/22.

I want to get the date & time for tomorrow at 10am, so it'll look like 22/09/22 10am. It always has to be 10am the next day.

So far, I've got this:

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concat(formatDateTime(addDays(utcnow(),1),'dd-MM-yy'), ' ', '10')

The result came out like this:

2022-09-22 10

And it needs to look something like this:

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2022-09-22T10:00:00.5436463Z

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Community Power Pla... on 21 Sep 2022 at 04:13:34

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Re: How to get tomorrow's date at a specific time, based on current date?

Thanks, managed to get it working, although the solution is rather weird and doesn't make sense....

Like what the recommendations suggested in that link, I created a Compose:

I then converted the timezone and the weird thing here is that I'm using exactly the same source and destination timezone, which to me seems pointless because there's "no conversion" done essentially:

I then use that output for my end time for my Outlook automatic reply:

And that worked. However, it's pretty much the same result as what I had before, prior to all this timezone conversion stuff. If I take out the timezone conversion, the result is incorrect. If I change the source timezone to UTC+0, the result is also incorrect. So somehow, setting the exact same source timezone fixes the issue, which is weird. Oh well, it works.

I was also going to just change the time from e.g. 10:00 (10am) to 22:00, but I felt that it's a crappy solution.
Sundeep_Malik 6,480 on 21 Sep 2022 at 03:31:21

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Re: How to get tomorrow's date at a specific time, based on current date?

@Anonymous
Check this previous post.
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Power-Automate/PM-to-AM-time-conversion-in-Power-Automate/td-p/908944
Similar to your case.
Community Power Pla... on 21 Sep 2022 at 03:22:50

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Re: How to get tomorrow's date at a specific time, based on current date?

My Flow basically updates the Outlook automatic reply with a start and end time.

I'm not sure why, but the start time and end time are correct in Flow, yet they the end time in my Outlook automatic reply is showing 10pm instead of 10am. What am I doing wrong here?
v-xiaochen-msft on 21 Sep 2022 at 03:18:53

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Re: How to get tomorrow's date at a specific time, based on current date?

Hi @Anonymous ,

Glad to see you solved the issue.

Please consider marking the correct reply as a solution and it will close the case. Thanks.

Best Regards,

Wearsky
Community Power Pla... on 21 Sep 2022 at 03:18:11

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Re: How to get tomorrow's date at a specific time, based on current date?

Sorry, one more question, how can I convert it to my local timezone? I've tried this but the result comes out with the incorrect time:

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convertTimeZone((formatDateTime(addDays(utcnow(),1),'yyyy-MM-ddT22:00:00.0000000Z')),'UTC','New Zealand Standard Time')
convertTimeZone((formatDateTime(addDays(utcnow(),1),'yyyy-MM-ddT22:00:00.0000000Z')),'UTC','New Zealand Standard Time')
Community Power Pla... on 21 Sep 2022 at 03:00:36

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Re: How to get tomorrow's date at a specific time, based on current date?

Thanks, I literally just figured it out last minute too:

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concat(formatDateTime(addDays(utcnow(),1),'yyyy-MM-dd'), 'T', '10:00:00.0000000Z')
concat(formatDateTime(addDays(utcnow(),1),'yyyy-MM-dd'), 'T', '10:00:00.0000000Z')
Thanks for your help!
Sundeep_Malik 6,480 on 21 Sep 2022 at 02:55:55

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Re: How to get tomorrow's date at a specific time, based on current date?

Instead of concatenating there
Use this

formatDateTime(addDays(utcnow(),1),'dd-MM-yyT10:00:00.5436463Z')