Kapacitor: Feature Request: Timezone function in tick scripts

[jamischarles]

I would LOVE a TZ function that allows me to shift the timestamp by timezone
maybe timeZone({{.Time}}, "+5") or timeZone({{.Time}}, "AMERICA_NY")

In my tick script, I currently set the message to this:
var message = 'Alert fired @ {{.Time}}'
which yields this alert in slack:
Alert fired @ 2017-12-05 07:19:00 +0000 UTC which would be more helpful if I can set the TZ.

Bonus: A function that formats the timestamp, but that's less important.

Possibly related:
https://github.com/influxdata/kapacitor/issues/1014

If you can give me some pointers, and this feature is desired, I'll happily work on a PR for this.

[corsair836]

This would be an awesome addition to K. Here in Tasmania, Australia we have a script that pulls out 10cm depth soil temperature readings at 9:00AM from Influx (important for fertiliser application decisions). Our servers are located in the US so I need to use an local time adjusted 'hour'. Would be great to be able to use TZ('Australia/Hobart') like we can in InfluxQL.

[mamosk]

Yes please! Would be great to match working hours during the whole year both when legal time is applied and when not.