Date changes to tomorrow after 5pm

bhope51

Hello,

 

I have been trying to find a work around for an issue I am having on sheet we use. We are currently using a sheet for employees to submit when they check out and check in equipment via a form. We were using the auto created date column to run reports on what equipment were checked out vs. available. We discovered that all submissions after 5pm are not registered because they are treated like the are submitted for the next day. Our account administrator is reluctant to change the working hours to be more than 8 hours due to impact on over sheets. Is there a way to use a formula to date/count when new rows are inserted correctly. see the photo for more details.

 

 

J. Craig Williams

This has been discussed in several different threads.

What you are seeing is a known issue related to the way Smartsheet stores the timestamp and UTC. 

Since I travel back and forth between the USA and Europe, I see this a lot.

Here's one post I wrote:

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/time-zone-clarification-needed

and here's a longer one that eventually led the user to abandon Smartsheet:

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/utc-date-fix-response-required

Craig

bhope51

Thanks for the Help Craig. I think I found a work around using the LEFT formula to pull out the time, then I can do work on it from there to get the analysis I am looking for.