# Twitter embeds show UTC time, not local time

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitter-embeds-show-utc-time-not-local-time/175337>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [January 7, 2021, 2:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitter-embeds-show-utc-time-not-local-time/175337 "2021-01-07T02:51:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 4:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitter-embeds-show-utc-time-not-local-time/175337/2 "2021-01-07T04:24:29Z")

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Given that the general philosophy of oneboxes is for them to be baked in at the time of post creation, how do you envisage this working? Will it show relative past times? Will it update in real time? Lots of unanswered questions here, some of them kinda complicated..

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