UTCDateTime to Date Conversion (Error Operand types are not compatible with the operator)

The utcdatetime data type is intrinsic to X++. It combines date and timeOfDay types into one type. A utcdatetime variable also holds time zone information, though this information is not accessible to X++ code.

I wanted to fill the SalesQuotationTable.QuotationDate (Custom field from older version - Type Date) field in all my quotes,
as this field was set to be mandatory. I created a job to assign the Quote Created Date Time into the SalesQuotationTable.QuotationDate field.

            try
            {
                ttsbegin;
                    sqt.QuotationDate = sqt.createdDateTime

                    sqt.update();
                ttscommit;
            }
            catch(Exception::Error)
            {
                ttsabort;
                info("Quotation Date is empty");
            }

The compiler gave me an error saying "Operand types are not compatible with the operator"

After reading some information regarding the new UTC date Time for AX 2009 I came to learn that there is a new utility named DateTimeUtil which provides a bunch of date operations such as adding days to a date, converting UTC date times to date, and so on.

You can read more about this utility here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc619601.aspx

The final code looks like this:

static void SetQuotationDate(Args _args)
{
    SalesQuotationTable sqt;
    ;
    while select forupdate sqt
    {
            try
            {
                ttsbegin;
                    sqt.QuotationDate = DateTimeUtil::date(sqt.createdDateTime);
                    sqt.update();
                ttscommit;
            }
            catch(Exception::Error)
            {
                ttsabort;
                info("Quotation Date is empty");
            }

       
    }
}

You can find more info about this here:

http://kashperuk.blogspot.com/2010/02/utcdatetime-in-dynamics-ax-2009.html
https://community.dynamics.com/product/ax/axtechnical/b/axrajdipdas/archive/2010/02/08/conversion-of-utcdatetime-in-dynamics-ax-2009.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc597805.aspx