Question

I can able to get time of local sql server by GetDate() function. Sql server machine is in india.

Now I want to get the current datetime of USA on same sql server what can I do.

Answer 1

You need to use the SYSDATETIMEOFFSET call (instead of just GETDATE()) to get your local time with the timezone information:

SELECT SYSDATETIMEOFFSET()

and then you can use the SWITCHOFFSET function to define a new timezone you’re interested in – based on UTC time. So the East Coast of the USA would be UTC -5 hours

SELECT SWITCHOFFSET(SYSDATETIMEOFFSET(), '-05:00') AS 'US East Coast'

while the West Coast is UTC -8 hours:

SELECT SWITCHOFFSET(SYSDATETIMEOFFSET(), '-08:00') AS 'US West Coast'