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by grapeape25 2013 days ago
There is a note regarding time zones at the bottom of the page: "All times are shown in your local timezone unless otherwise noted."
2 comments
hnick 2013 days ago
It should still say the assumed TZ as others note. Many people use VPNs and geo-ip lookup is not infallible anyway.

Edit: Apparently it's browser settings, which means you need scripting enabled for this page.

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shakna 2013 days ago
Which timezone is my local timezone? A bunch of geolocation systems think I'm in Paris. I'm in Melbourne. (My ISP bought an IP block that used to be registered to a French company).

That's a considerable difference.

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kzrdude 2013 days ago
It's not geolocation - just a javascript function to ask the browser what the UTC offset of your local time is. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091372/getting-the-clie...
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shakna 2013 days ago
Which JavaScript function? The two main ones return two differing results for my browser.

  Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone

  > "Australia/Melbourne"
Which is UTC +11.

   new Date().getTimezoneOffset()

   > -710
Which is roughly UTC +11.8.

If you're going to shoebox me into a particular timezone - tell me what it is, and let me change it.

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noemit 2013 days ago
I'm in spain and my geolocation is also always wrong.
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