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by dtjc 1143 days ago
It tells me:

    Start time: June 15, 2023 | 11:00pm
    End time: June 16, 2023 | 12:00am
So I guess it's in our time zone? I'm in GMT+2.
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Yep. I mean, it's nice that we don't have to do the timezone math, but they still should include the timezone to avoid confusion.
Automatic time zone translation is moronic if you don’t indicate that automatic translation has happened before displaying it to the user.

Also, assuming that the time zone set on the client machine is the same that the reader expects is usually true, but not always.

There’s a reason most technical or “professional” communication of time zones happens in UTC, and the conversion is left up to the reader.

This is one of those UI conventions that would be good, but is actually unusable and ruined because there's too much other bad UIs that don't even think about time zones.
I wish people would just also always publish GMT - timezones are the freaking worst.