How to get date time in utc+8 and gmt+8

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I am trying to convert the time in utc+8 or gmt+8 but both not working.
I am using this ${STRFTIME(${EPOCH}+0800,%Y%m%d%H%M%S)}, I do not whether it is correct or not

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I’m not sure what you are trying to achieve here. That’s not how time zones work.

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Although this is not the way that people do it, you would have to add 28800, not 0800 (I’m not sure how 0800 would be handled; it might be treated as an invalid octal number, rather than the same as 800).

I don’t know the standard way of doing this in Asterisk, as I’ve only ever needed to set the timezone at the OS level, when using it.

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I did manage to achieve this by specifying the time zone after epoch

${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},Asia/Shanghai,%Y%m%d%H%M%S)}
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Timezone names are the way to go. Trust the folks who maintain the Olson database!

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