I'm using Pacific timezone in daylight savings time in my example, which is UTC-7 hours.

Out of the box, both {{ date('now')|date('F j, Y @ g:i a') }} (the date function) and {{ 'now'|date('F j, Y @ g:i a') }} (the date filter) return UTC time with no timezone applied to them.

When I stick date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles'); at the top of my functions.php theme file, the date filter displays the correct current time (UTC-7), but the date function is displaying UTC-14, almost like the equivalent timezone offset is being applied twice.

After reading the Twig docs on the date() function, I thought adding the following in my functions.php file might work, but it isn't affecting my date variables in twig:

function add_to_twig( $twig ) {
	$twig->getExtension(\Twig\Extension\CoreExtension::class)->setTimezone('America/Los_Angeles');
	return $twig;
}

I couldn't find anything in the Timber docs about timezone usage or manipulation. I have tried this on two different servers producing the same results.