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I would like to obtain the time zone of Time that is provided to the OnData(Slice slice) function.
The reason is as follows:
When running a backtest I see that S&P500 mini future starts trading at 18:00 on Sunday (first minute trade bar at 18:01),
At CME Group website, trading hours are specified as "Sunday-Friday 6:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m. New York time/ET" so i deduce the time zone of Time is New York time/ET.
I want to recompute the value of Time to a DateTime in time zone CET, which incidently makes the trading hours Workdays 00:00-23:15 CET (actually 0:00 - 22:15, 22:30-23:15). So proper SW design requires a function that returns the time zone of Time.
Stefano Raggi
Bart van den Broek ,
you can get the current time zone for the algorithm with the TimeZone property:
Debug("TimeZone: " + TimeZone);You can also change the default time zone (NewYork) with the SetTimeZone method:
SetTimeZone(TimeZones.Berlin);Petra Wagenbach
What exactly does the SetTimeZone function influence?
If I have a consolidator
there is absolutely no difference if I set a different time zone. This is very unfortunate as I would like the consolidator to act in a different time zone.
Varad Kabade
Hi Petra Wagenbach,
SetTimeZone changes the algorithm time zone:self.TimeZone and self.Time. The consolidator will depend on the data time zone.
Best,
Varad Kabade
Gowestyang
Hello! May I know how shall I extract the “data time zone” of a given symbol and display it in self.Log()?
Thanks!
Derek Melchin
Hi Gowestyang,
Please see Data Time Zone.
Best,
Derek Melchin
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