Add timezone() builtin

builtin/builtin.go

@@ -529,6 +529,17 @@ var Builtins = []*Function{
 			new(func(string, string, string) time.Time),
 		),
 	},
+	{
+		Name: "timezone",
+		Func: func(args ...any) (any, error) {
+			tz, err := time.LoadLocation(args[0].(string))
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, err
+			}
+			return tz, nil
+		},
+		Types: types(time.LoadLocation),
+	},
 	{
 		Name: "first",
 		Func: func(args ...any) (any, error) {

builtin/builtin_test.go

@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ func TestBuiltin(t *testing.T) {
 		{`date("2023-04-23T00:30:00.000+0100", "2006-01-02T15:04:05-0700", "America/Chicago").Format("2006-01-02")`, "2023-04-22"},
 		{`date("2023-04-23T00:30:00", "2006-01-02T15:04:05", "America/Chicago").Format("2006-01-02")`, "2023-04-23"},
 		{`date("2023-04-23", "2006-01-02", "America/Chicago").Format("2006-01-02")`, "2023-04-23"},
+		{`timezone("UTC").String()`, "UTC"},
+		{`timezone("Europe/Moscow").String()`, "Europe/Moscow"},
 		{`first(ArrayOfString)`, "foo"},
 		{`first(ArrayOfInt)`, 1},
 		{`first(ArrayOfAny)`, 1},

docs/language-definition.md

@@ -484,6 +484,38 @@ date("2023-08-14T00:00:00Z")
 date("2023-08-14 00:00:00", "2006-01-02 15:04:05", "Europe/Zurich")
 ```
 
+Available methods on the date:
+
+- `Year()` - returns the year
+- `Month()` - returns the month (starting from 1)
+- `Day()` - returns the day of the month
+- `Hour()` - returns the hour
+- `Minute()` - returns the minute
+- `Second()` - returns the second
+- `Weekday()` - returns the day of the week
+- `YearDay()` - returns the day of the year
+- and [more](https://pkg.go.dev/time#Time).
+
+```expr
+date("2023-08-14").Year() == 2023
+```
+
+### timezone(str) {#timezone}
+
+Returns the timezone of the given string `str`. List of available timezones can be
+found [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones).
+
+```expr
+timezone("Europe/Zurich")
+timezone("UTC")
+```
+
+To convert a date to a different timezone, use the [`In()`](https://pkg.go.dev/time#Time.In) method:
+
+```expr
+date("2023-08-14 00:00:00").In(timezone("Europe/Zurich"))
+```
+
 ## Number Functions
 
 ### max(n1, n2) {#max}