# 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, 4:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitter-embeds-show-utc-time-not-local-time/175337/4 "2021-01-07T04:39:04Z")

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Right, as long as it’s easy to do, and leverages the code we already have, I’m for it!

But the general philosophy of oneboxes is they bake in at the time of post for posterity, so we want to retain that. I’ve rebuilt HTML on posts where the tweet was deleted and then it goes from “useful onebox!” to “broken link that results in a sad lonely 404” 😢

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