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i am trying something llike this
<https://trycf.com/gist/462c2ac14c5824f0ca606ca58c0e059c/lucee5?theme=monokai>
where i should be able to get if its morning, it should returning me morning and if afternoon and then that and if evening then evening

<@UES7JHLPM> I wouldn't use dateDiff().  I'd just get the hours from the UTC date and then create if statements to decide whether it's morning, noon, or night.

```dateConvert( 'local2Utc', now() ).hour()```

That will give you a number 0-23 representing a 24 hour clock

I THINK the reason you're getting the result you're getting is because if you don't specify a date, it doesn't assume today, it assumes epoch start, iirc, so to do it the way you're currently doing it, you need to create a full datetime with today's date and the time, not just the time, for the third parameter.

...but Brad's way is obviously easier. :slightly_smiling_face:

<@U06V253M4> i am getting 0 for every value, if i use now or even use local2utc, it is giving me 0

hour(now()) is saying 1 right this minute, but when you typed that, it was between midnight and 1am UTC, so 0 was correct.