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UTC Date Time in New Folder Name
I'm very new to Flow and I'm failing to get the UTC date time in a new filename. My flow works as follow, if an email arrives with an attachment, then save this attachment in a SharePoint online F...
You can use simply utcNow() in compose or if you want only date value of utc, you can use formatDateTime(utcNow(),'dd-MM-yyyy') in compose and then you can use that compose output value in file creating.
I used to use that method until I found out that it doesn't account for your local time zone, it only displays the date per UTC so here in Australia (as an example), the date would still show yesterdays date even though I was generating the document today.
Here's a blog that explains the UTC versus local time zone difference.
https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/working-with-dates-and-times/
Cheers
Damien
