Time zones in Perspective

[Lautaro_Cides]

I have a problem here:
on the same screen... how can I get the local time from my pc? I need to use this since the screen I am using could be opened in other countries.
I have tried using system.date.now(). But it only returns me the local time of the server

[iscrac]

try with minus or plus timezone offset value exctracted from DataBase
or get datetime from DataBase

[pturmel]

Don't use the database. That will give the database timezone. Use the Perspective Session property timeZoneId.

https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Session+Properties

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