Convert Event Dates and Times to User's Timezone

Hi, I realize this post is a little old. I'm trying to do the same thing. I can get the users time zone with:

"/users/self/settings/name/config.timezone"

and I can set the time zone as above:

<#setting time_zone="America/New_York">.

However, the time zone returned by the first "US/Eastern" for example does not work for the freemarker time_zone setting. Do I have to go through every time zone and correct it. I could do something like this:

<#if timeZone == "US/Eastern">
    <#assign timeZone = "America/New_York" />
<#elseif timeZone == "US/Central">
    <#assign timeZone = "America/Chicago" />
so on ...

But seems awfully tedious. Is there a better way? Seems like Khoros might have some way to correct the time zone for the user but I can't find anything in the documentation.

Natkinson how did you end up managing time zone?

Thanks