Feature Request: Create events in timezones other than local

It would be nice if during the creation of events, Discord could let us set event date/time in the timezone of our choice (default to local timezone) and have it convert everything automatically. Event times are rarely announced in my timezone. So currently when, for example, I want to create an event to watch the game awards together with my buddies (all from very different time zones), I have to manually convert it to local time first before I can create the event. After which I triple check it to make sure I didn't convert the time wrong because timezones are hard and DST is a foreign concept to me which makes things worse at certain times of the year.

From my understanding they already do conversion to everyone's local time zone so this is just a logical extra step for convenience when creating events. Note that I am only referring to timezone settings for creation of events. Users seeing the event in their own time zone is an incredibly useful thing that should not be changed (and I would argue is half the point of events).

williamm

7 dicembre 2021 03:01

There is a feature like that actually! The problem is that its sorta hidden away. It uses epoch and creates a dynamic timestamp that will change according to your computers local zone. https://hammertime.djdavid98.art/en-GB Here's a handy tool that easily allows you to create said timestamp. All you have to do it copy and paste one of the syntaxes in to a chat and boom dynamic timestamp.

Like I said its hidden so not many people know about it sadly and that's major problem. It's existed since the start of the year and its super unused but very helpful.

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