Defaulting TimeData to "now" has offset issues

[ctsims]

A form created where a TimeData question has the default value of

format-date(now(), '%H:%M:%S')

should be initialized to the current time, but doing so on Oct 27, 2020 in the US Eastern timezone (likely others) results in the value being displayed to the user being 1 hour early (10am v. 11am, etc).

This is quite likely because the time value is being cast against an Epoch date in one instance (which is UTC-5 in US Eastern on Jan 1) and against the current date in another (which is UTC-4 in US Eastern on Oct 27)

[AgCaliva]

Hi i have found there is an error in tests, maybe related to this? because of my timezone it was failing to compile in my PC.
I will do a PR to fix it.
What is exactly needed to display with correct timezone, where?
To manage date or time without timezone you can just store the values that Date.getTime() returns, and use an Calendar object to get the date.
Instead of what you are doing now that is printing a formated new Date() object, which always will use system timezone by default. .getTime() returns GMT