Date time of a timezone

Question

We are saving our date as 
 
 now() 
 
 and displaying in a grid as shown below 
 
 a!gridTextColumn(label: "Added On", field: "createdDtm", data:datetext(index(local!docDataSubset.data,"createdDtm",{}),"MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss")),

The user time zone is set to EDT . 
 
 Our issue is the system displays some other time 4 hours behind the EDT . 
 How can i display a date time of a specific timezone using date functions 
 
 Note : We only have internal users from east coast , even we can hard code the eastern time

lucasj · Answer

As mentioned by Alok, the now() function will return the current system time. If you set your system time to GMT, you can use the following function to convert to other timezones: 
 gmt(now(), "America/New_York") 
 A description of this function is available at https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/17.1/fnc_date_and_time_gmt.html