Displaying current date to user according to their time zone

[megabosx]

I want to display the current date to the user in their time zone and be able to format it appropriately, i found the following recommendation by the community but it doesn't seem to work in the context of a sidebar. Any idea what might be wrong?

{xen:date $serverTime, 'm/d/Y'}

 

[xenfans]

Maybe use this as an example:
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/local-time.5269/

 

[megabosx]

Maybe use this as an example:
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/local-time.5269/

Thank you for the suggestion, however i'm more interested in the date, this seems to be a bit overkill,

 

[xenfans]

I meant it more as an example as to how they've used the XenForo_Locale::time(), how to get the timezone of the user, .. just repurpose it to a date (the Model/User.php file)

 

[megabosx]

I meant it more as an example as to how they've used the XenForo_Locale::time(), how to get the timezone of the user, .. just repurpose it to a date

cool, let me have a look

 

[xenfans]

cool, let me have a look

And otherwise there are some handy functions in the upload/library/XenForo/Locale.php file