🌍 New Calendar Feature: Show Local Time

yaran · June 23, 2025, 1:46pm

I have two related PRs:

@nat, looping you in, since you worked on this feature years ago:

github.com/discourse/discourse

FEATURE: Omit showing day when 'to' day is same as 'from' day

main ← date-today

відкрито 10:08AM - 06 Oct 22 UTC

nattsw

+61 -7

Essentially, introducing this change. Saturday at 2:50 PM -> Saturday at 4:38… PM becomes Saturday at 2:50 PM -> 4:38 PM (Singapore) Also, the displayed dates are shortened when the standalone date is within two days. So despite the 'from' and 'to' date being the same day, it may show 'Saturday' for 'from', and the specific date for the 'to'. This corrects the behaviour. So if the current date and time is Thursday 5PM, the 'from' date below is within 2 days, but the 'to' date is not. Saturday at 2:50 PM -> 8 October 2022 at 9:38 PM becomes Saturday at 2:50 PM -> 9:38 PM

In which cases we should show a timezone name in brackets after the from/to date/time?
What are the expectations to show: weekday name Monday...Sunday or Yesterday/Today/Tomorrow?

I’d go with:
- Yesterday/Today/Tomorrow: for -1 day<-Today->+1 day
- Monday...Sunday: within current week or -3 days<-Today->+3 days
Presence of time should not be a decision factor of which of two options above to show, as it is now:
- no time: Monday...Sunday
- with time: Yesterday/Today/Tomorrow

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🌍 New Calendar Feature: Show Local Time

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