# Time difference in Current Date/Time **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [September 7, 2022, 9:28am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/time-difference-in-current-date-time/48765 "2022-09-07T09:28:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nathan\_Brun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/nathan_brun/32/47424_2.png) [@Nathan\_Brun](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Nathan_Brun)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 9:28am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/time-difference-in-current-date-time/48765/1 "2022-09-07T09:28:13Z")
Hello ! I have an action that adds a row in my Airtable database with a column with the actual date and time. I use “Current Date/Time” in the Add Row action in this column. Since 2 days, the time that is returned is two hours behind the time of the device used and I don’t now why. The hour in the virtual device in glide is correct and changes according to the time of the device, but the time returned by the action is 2 hours behind. Thank for help ! ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 1:00am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/time-difference-in-current-date-time/48765/2 "2022-09-08T01:00:20Z")
May we know what timezone are you in? I assume UTC+2? The “current date/time” in Glide does respect the current hour of the device, but when they write it to the database, it does not contain the timezone info. Say you’re 7AM UTC+2, what they seem to actually write to the database is 7AM UTC. Then Airtable converts it to your timezone, so that fits with your description that it’s 2 hours behind. Glide is experimenting a feature to “respect” the timezone of the device, but it might only be for Glide Tables at first. No ETA for an official launch. ---
**Author:** ![Nathan\_Brun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/nathan_brun/32/47424_2.png) [@Nathan\_Brun](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Nathan_Brun)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 8:36am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/time-difference-in-current-date-time/48765/3 "2022-09-08T08:36:09Z")
Thank you for your answer. The problem is that Airtable does not do this conversion because I store the date and time in a ‘Text’ column to avoid time zone problems. It is therefore Glide that sends the UTC time and not the time of my device. Here is an example: Pressing this button sends the current time in the “DJ\_Glide” column. This column is in text format to simplify time zone problems. And we can see that Glide sends the UTC time and not the time of my device. (10h32) ![glide](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/5/2/5282736a0d5edc84188c56e5f0374c7233af0fa8.png) So the problem is not an Airtable conversion but Glide returns the time in UTC format. And this happens only since a few days, before it was returning the time of the device. ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 8:38am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/time-difference-in-current-date-time/48765/4 "2022-09-08T08:38:36Z")
When you double click the cell, does it show the same “9/8/2022, 8:32:32 AM” format or does it show it in a Zulu format? ---
**Author:** ![Nathan\_Brun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/nathan_brun/32/47424_2.png) [@Nathan\_Brun](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Nathan_Brun)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 9:07am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/time-difference-in-current-date-time/48765/5 "2022-09-08T09:07:42Z")
When I double click, it shows the same because it’s a text Area ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/2/1/210a8ded79fae472f6977415e7891ae42bcc7e95.png) ---
**Author:** ![Nathan\_Brun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/nathan_brun/32/47424_2.png) [@Nathan\_Brun](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Nathan_Brun)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 9:37am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/time-difference-in-current-date-time/48765/6 "2022-09-08T09:37:13Z")
In my opinion, Glide must have changed the way it returns “Current Date time” and since a few days it is always returned in UTC format, no matter what time the device has. I hope this will not change again because it requires a different database organization. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 10:43am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/time-difference-in-current-date-time/48765/7 "2022-09-08T10:43:19Z")
For what it’s worth, I did a quick test earlier. Created a simple action that did a Set Column Values, setting a text column to the current date/time. The result was a time stamp in my current local time - UTC+8. So from my perspective at least, the behaviour hasn’t changed. I won’t try and speculate what the issue might be in your case, as I’m not familiar with the Glide/AirTable integration. ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 11:27am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/time-difference-in-current-date-time/48765/8 "2022-09-08T11:27:22Z")
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