How to get DateTime fields on forms to display the user's timezone?

[alexjyong]

A request from members in my organization involves displaying the timezone in the date time fields on our forms. While I could just have the label be dynamically generated by the user's timezone, it would be easier to just go and have it in the field itself.   Is there a way to do this? I know emailing the data shows timezone, but I would like it on the SN frontend as well.

[alexjyong]

Yes.

[Chuck Tomasi]

You might be able to do something similar with your own formatter... You could use getUserTimeZone (or gs.getSession().getTimeZone() ) to get the value and then display it as a UI macro/formatter. It wouldn't be part of the field display itself, but would allow you to expose it.

https://developer.servicenow.com/app.do#!/api_doc?v=jakarta&id=r_GDT-getUserTimeZone

https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/jakarta-servicenow-platform/page/administer/form-administration/c...

[alexjyong]

I'll give that a shot. Thanks!

[Chuck Tomasi]

Ah, I see.

As far as I know, there's no format that outputs "PDT, UTC, US/Phoenix" or any other timezone suffix in the date/time picker widget. I love the idea.

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[alexjyong]

Just tried to, but the enhancement form's product field is empty, which keeps me from submitting it.