[Feature request]: Time/date stamp/link that changes according to system time/time zone
Hello,
Is it possible to implement time variable that shows specific time and/or date but all that considering the current system time/time zone?
Example: I put 2:00pm in my time zone -> the client shows it as 4:00am in another user's time zone/system time.
Alternatively is this possible for time/date combo? Example: I put 29.04.2020, 7:00pm -> other user sees it as 29.04.2020, 9:00am because of time difference/local system time.
Looking forward to your reply,
Vikeri
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This feature was requested about a year ago here: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360045756912-Chatmessage-with-timestamp-in-users-local-time
My suggestion is to cross up-vote on both and hopefully we will get traction on this someday. The feature would be super helpful for coordination of events through discord.2 -
Here's another similar feature request: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360048439132-Mentioned-Timestamps
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I too would love to have this feature! However, I vote for the ISO-8601 version of this request. I'm happy to type the international standard date format, 2020-04-29. Even if it's unfamiliar to many of us Americans, it's not confusing. But we have this weird medium/small/big format in our local, so even if we mean well we're likely to type June 1 as 06.01.2020, not 01.06.2020. And I'm not sure all locales use "pm" as opposed to 24-hour time.
If you mean that it should parse whatever format the user's locale (set by the Language preference) specifies, I'm guessing that would be more work for the Discord developers, especially since there are many acceptable variants even in a single country, like two-digit years and leading zeros. Whereas with output, they've apparently already written the code; it's used on the message-creation timestamp. It may also be impossible to do localized parsing. Am I right in guessing that what the user types is stored as is, with no record of what locale they had set, or what timezone they were in when they typed it? That would rule out some of the other suggestions. If the markup says "01/05/20", it would mean May 1 if typed in the U.K. and January 5 if typed in the U.S., so it would have no way to know whether to display `01.05.20` or `05.01.20` for a German user. If so, ISO is the way to go.
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https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360048439132-Mentioned-Timestamps
This one (Sylvanmyst's second) suggests using a time/date picker (equivalent to the username pop-up when you @ a user), which is probably simpler even than parsing ISO, and more likely to be got right by people. The ISO date is reasonably simple, the time is rather more complex.0 -
I think that arguing over what format dates should be displayed in isn't the crucial issue, because the point of the timezone widget is that everybody sees the time in whatever timezone and format they have set. This is a feature that I've wanted for a long time, and I think that it's probably the top feature I think that should be added to discord.
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