SASĀ® Visual Analytics audit data is recorded and displayed in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)


SAS Visual Analytics provides the ability to report on user activity within the applications by using audit data. By design, the audit actions are recorded using Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). However, this means that the recorded time might not match the local time zone.

To account for the time difference for use within the Administrator reports, you can create a calculated data item. For example, in order to represent the Eastern time zone, you could use the following expression to subtract five hours from the GMT value:

TreatAs(_Datetime_, ( TreatAs(_Number_, 'Timestamp'n) - TreatAs(_Number_, TimeFromHMS(5, 0, 0)) ))