Calculating timezone offset in YAML date field

[jjallaire]

Discussed in #1802

^{Originally posted by dtremblay-sher August 10, 2022}
I would like my document's date to be effectively the equivalent of quarto's new "now" keyword. The problem is that the remote system on which I use quarto has its system time set as UTC +0, but I am in a different timezone.

In rmarkdown, you can do something like:
date: "`r format(Sys.time(), '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', tz='America/New_York')`"
which would convert the time appropriately.

I see options in date-format to show the system's timezone, but none that would perform timezone conversion.

I found this discussion in my search (#452) but it appears that OPs question was answered with the addition of the "now" keyword.

Any ideas? Thanks!

[jemus42]

I'm also interested in changing the timezone displayed in the metadata.
I thought about setting an environment variable with the quarto call, something like TZ=Europe/Berlin quarto render ... but of course a documented/builtin method would be nice.

[renejuan]

Very interested in this feature!

[dungates]

Would be great to have this!