Expression: Add Hours within a FormatDateTime expression

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Hi all,

Needing some advice regarding an expression for a date field.

An expression used in a flow to populate an invoice date field (field a), with a date from another record (field b) is populating the day prior to what is expected for 'field b'. I believe it is one day prior, as our time zone is 10 hours ahead of the UTC time zone - so when populating 'now' I would generally write as ... ... ... addhours(utcNow(), 10) . This makes me think that the 'field a' & 'field b' situations means that I need to apply this addhours function to the expression that I'm writing.

The expression I've used which is populating the 'field a' is:

formatDateTime(body('Get_Field_b_Date_for_Invoice')?['ec_date'], 'yyyy-MM-dd')

When I tried to add the 10 hours in there, I keep getting an Invalid Expression. Updated invalid expression:

formatDateTime(addhours(body('Get_Field_b_Date_for_Invoice')?['ec_date'], '10')'yyyy-MM-dd')

Any feedback is appreciated.

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CFernandes 8,482 Most Valuable Professional on at

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@Tarjani Let me try to simple for you.

If you are not comfortable with expression, the just use the 'Add to Time', see screenshot below.

You also the Function ference at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/logic-apps/workflow-definition-language-functions-reference#addtotime

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@CFernandes ,

I appreciate your feedback, but I think you are simplifying the wrong expression - or I am missing what you are trying to say.

I'm fine with doing an addhours expression. However I"m trying to insert this expression, inside another expression. The expression that I'm trying to put it into is the one that I need to work with. If possible, I'd like to do it with an expression as the expression that I listed in my original post is being used within a variable.

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