If statement for UK time zone

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Hi all

I'm working on an app where everything is displayed in local time apart from one thing. We have a line of code that acts as a cut off.

Set(vCutOffEdit, If(Hour(Now()) < 13, DateAdd(Now(), -25, TimeUnit.Hours), Today() + Time(13, 0, 0)));

For all other statements, we want the users of the app to use local time but this cut off must be applied to UK time. I feel like the whole statement from the If needs to be wrapped in some kind of conversion but am drawing a blank how to do this - of course I could be wrong).

I've looked for functions etc but cannot work out how to action this as UK time. Of course, there is the added complication that the UK has British Summertime.

Any help would be appreciated 🙂

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Not sure if I'm following your problem. Have you tried UTC functions?
Now, Today, IsToday, UTCNow, and UTCToday functions in Power Apps - Power Platform | Microsoft Learn

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Hi Joyle

Thanks for your reply, I know it will use the UTC functions (and maybe others?) but I just can't work out the syntax.

As explained I want the whole statement to be applied to UK time, not local time, so:
whatever the time is now in the UK, if it is before 1pm (in the UK), show the results for the last 25 hours (in the UK), otherwise if it is after 1pm (in the UK), show the results from 1pm onwards (in the UK).

I hope this makes it a bit clearer.

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I've tried doing this, after looking at the microsoft power platform function page and it just errors:

Set(vCutOffEdit, If(Hour( UTCNow()) < 13, DateAdd( UTCNow(), -25, TimeUnit.Hours), UTCToday() + Time(13, 0, 0)));

But I still don't think this would be correct anyway, as I need to specify it is as UK time

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