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Providing Central European Time but not UTC/GMT is really weird
by Asraelite 3y ago
Providing Central European Time but not UTC/GMT is really weird
- stavros 3y agoProviding any second timezone but not UTC/GMT is really weird. I don't want to have to figure out what other countries are doing with their daylight savings, just give me UTC and I'll know my current offset.
- qwertox 3y agoExactly my thought. But the real issue is why don't have browsers an integrated way of doing these computations by reading some HTML tags and also providing input widgets to make sure that it is universally readable by machines. Like <datetime ts="1700310507" ref-tz="Europe/Amsterdam" /> (if the event's timezone is Europe/Amsterdam, only for informational purposes)
- HPsquared 3y agoYeah... Windows 95 did it, why not the modern web browser?
- MalcolmDwyer 3y agoJavaScript language and browsers have tons of facilities for dealing with date times in sensible ways, including displaying a `Date` object in the local time zone and local preferred formatting. SpaceX designed their page to display specific time zones for whatever reason.