diff --git a/mercurial/help.py b/mercurial/help.py
--- a/mercurial/help.py
+++ b/mercurial/help.py
@@ -341,6 +341,7 @@ PYTHONPATH::
     - hgdate: Date. Returns the date as a pair of numbers:
           "1157407993 25200" (Unix timestamp, timezone offset).
     - isodate: Date. Returns the date in ISO 8601 format.
+    - localdate: Date. Converts a date to local date.
     - obfuscate: Any text. Returns the input text rendered as a
           sequence of XML entities.
     - person: Any text. Returns the text before an email address.
diff --git a/mercurial/templatefilters.py b/mercurial/templatefilters.py
--- a/mercurial/templatefilters.py
+++ b/mercurial/templatefilters.py
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ filters = {
     "isodatesec": lambda x: util.datestr(x, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %1%2'),
     "json": json,
     "jsonescape": jsonescape,
+    "localdate": lambda x: (x[0], util.makedate()[1]),
     "nonempty": nonempty,
     "obfuscate": obfuscate,
     "permissions": permissions,