Re:Show HN: See a Satellite Tonight. No Telescope Required
by Rarok on Saturday September 21, 2019 @06:42PM
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Are the hours in my local TimeZone, in GMT or in the timezone of the developer?
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Re:Show HN: See a Satellite Tonight. No Telescope Required
by modeless on Saturday September 21, 2019 @06:54PM
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Local time as determined by your browser settings.
Re:Show HN: See a Satellite Tonight. No Telescope Required
by tgsovlerkhgsel on Saturday September 21, 2019 @07:29PM
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I'd recommend showing this + the time zone (e.g. "browser local time, UTC+2"). My guess was that it's the local time of the location entered, which can matter when telling someone "hey, you'll be able to see a cool satellite looking out your northward window at 9 pm!". If you're worried about keeping a clean look, at least add a tooltip.
(I've also been trained to distrust any time that doesn't specify a time zone, because I've seen sites that default to some random US timezone, use your local time, use UTC, ...)
Re:Show HN: See a Satellite Tonight. No Telescope Required
by fyfy18 on Saturday September 21, 2019 @09:23PM
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> I've also been trained to distrust any time that doesn't specify a time zone
My pet peeve is status pages that only show times in some US timezone. I'm supposed to know what the conversion from that timezone to my timezone is, and then the timezone to my servers (which are in UTC)...