This is more of a knowledge sharing rather than a question as we spent considerable time searching for the answer in the community and found no useful results.
In short if you are looking to get the current time in user's time zone the function to be used is getUserDateTime()
We have a requirement to populate the Valid from, Valid To fields. Each date field has onChange client scripts that check the entered date against the current date. The date pickers were showing the date in the user's time zone (in our case US/Pacific). The client script for 'Valid to' has a check to see if the date value should be greater than user's current time.
The client script is trying to get current date using newDate().getTime() which is giving time in UTC. What we needed was a way to get the current time adjusted to user's timezone.
The function to be used is getUserDateTime().
