Manipulate datetime in Alert Template

[Mario.Morelli]

Hi there

Does anyone have a way to manipulate the time in an alert template. It'showing the event time in UTC time, not in the customer's time

We have SaaS Controllers which are in Europe however the customer is in a different timezone, however from AppD Support it seems we cannot update the time in the Alert.

This obviously causes confusion when the customer sees the event time is out by a couple of hours 

Surely there is a way to add/subtract hours in the template itself?

Any help is appreciated:)

[Mario.Morelli · Accepted solution]

For anybody else looking for this, please find working code below, we are GMT+2

You can change the code to fit your needs

#set ($date = ${latestEvent.eventTime})
#set ($newDate = ${date.getHours()}+(2))
$date.setHours(${newDate})
#set( $String = ' ' ) $String.format('%1$tY-%1$tm-%1$tdT%1$tH:%1$tM:%1$tSZ', ${date})