Solved - Help converting UTC to CDT

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1

Howdy,

I’m trying to figure out a way to convert from UTC to CDT. Can anybody point me in the right direction?

This is the sensor I’m using to pull the data in, I just have no clue how to do the conversion.

sensor:
  - platform: rest
    resource: https://statsapi.web.nhl.com/api/v1/schedule?teamId=25
    name: nhl_game_status
    scan_interval: 
      hours: 24
    value_template: '{{ value_json.dates[0].games[0].status.detailedState }}'
    json_attributes:
      - dates
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      nhl_game_date:
        friendly_name: "NHL Game Date"
        icon_template: mdi:mdi:hockey-puck
        value_template: '{{ states.sensor.nhl_game_status.attributes["dates"][0]["games"][0]["gameDate"] }}'

Currently it’s returning this info:
2019-04-26T01:30:00Z

Any help would be appreciated.

2

Assuming CDT is the local time of your HA machine, this or this link shows you how to convert UTC to your local time. The first link has a time in the format you’re receiving.

3

You should not need to convert it. It’s a utc time and as long as you have the right Timezone in HA it should deal with it and show correct local time with no conversion.

4

I do have my timezone configured, but it’s not converting it. I’m pretty new to using the rest sensor, so I’m not sure if I’ve done something else wrong.

homeassistant:
  elevation: !secret elevation
  latitude: !secret latitude_home
  longitude: !secret longitude_home
  time_zone: !secret time_zone
5

What do you see if you set the device class to date time? (I think it’s datetime). My dates and times are showing correct in Lovelace.

6

Looks like device_class is the answer. Thanks!

      nhl_game_date:
        device_class: timestamp
        friendly_name: "NHL Game Date"
        icon_template: mdi:mdi:hockey-puck
        value_template: '{{ states.sensor.nhl_game_status.attributes["dates"][0]["games"][0]["gameDate"] }}'
7

Sweet! I had so much misery with dates and iOS but your datetime was in exactly the format you can do anything with.

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