Just witnessed a webpage with a date implementation so bad it rendered the site with one day and then *updated the page with javascript* at runtime to replace it with the actual date. I’m pretty sure it just renders the page as UTC and *then* tries to get your local date to format the timestamp?
To be honest the idea that "what day was this article published" should be relative to the *reader's time zone* is pretty weird to begin with
@misty if I’m being generous here that could be working around the site being served as static HTML, in which case any customisation for the user would have to be done in JavaScript.
@misty agreed ... i have my mutt (email) set to use the sender's timezone for display, because that's a lot more relevant for assessing their state of mind
@misty Individualized display of time makes sense for people using various calendars who are accustomed to a different kind of year counting and display for instance. I guess the local time rendering functions can provide that. Running them async is not cool though... and one could argue that this could be handled by translation tools.
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