Topic Timer Enhancements

Feature
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Hi,

When setting a topic timer, there are a few enhancements that I believe would make it even better:

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  1. When selecting a custom time, to have a popup window that makes it easy to select a time, in a process parallel to picking the date on the calendar.
  2. After selecting the time, for that to appear in the notification: “This topic will be published to [category] in 4 days at 9am.”
  3. For the notification to also specify the time zone. “9am Eastern Standard Time”

Thank you for your consideration.

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Why? This is local to your time zone, so the time entered is always “correct” from your perspective.

3

Hi, fair question.

For the first time I did it, the time itself doesn’t appear in the notification, so I was hesitant/unsure that it was set properly. Then, I wondered what time zone the system would use for the topic timer. But, it all worked out.

In general, I think the time zone feature would be magic for doing announcements/posts in our global community. If I want to get something out for our team in Oxford at the start of their workday, knowing that I have it configured for 8am BST adds clarity and confidence to the workflow.

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Late to the question, but was wondering the same thing while testing out the topic timers for an important announcement of awards being given out by our organization and I do not want to publish it at the wrong time.

It might help the less discourse savvy (like me) if the interface indicated the time was local. But to be sure I created a test at 10am local, set a custom date (today) and time (noon), and the interface did indicate that it would be published 2 hours from now.

A time zone reference (like the Insert date/time in the editor) is handy for us as we are an international organization.