When reading data sources, it is possible to check a box that tells Dataiku to understand the date as "local" time. "Local" being local to the server time zone running the job. But if I'm going to use these dates to make predictions (in my case, I predict a time delta, then add that delta to the original timestamp, which provides me with the predicted date and time that an event will occur on) then ultimately I need the prediction to be localized in the same manor the original date was. Presently, I have to manually increment that predicted date by the time zone offset, and because this is occurring in a time zone that shifts for daylight savings, the offset value changes periodically. It would be a really nice feature to simply be able to designate that the output time is timezoneless (and in doing so, is automatically shifted back from Zulu time to the server's local time zone).
I know I can handle all of this with some prepare recipes and scenario variables, but it would be a lot smoother (and more easily understood by someone who may need to update the project later) to have this handled natively.