### Discussed in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/1802

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<sup>Originally posted by **dtremblay-sher** August 10, 2022</sup>
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 (https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/452) but it appears that OPs question was answered with the addition of the "now" keyword.

Any ideas? Thanks!</div>
dragonstyle
2022-08-14T16:20:24Z
jjallaire
enhancement
v1.4
open
Calculating timezone offset in YAML date field
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/1870