🌍 New Calendar Feature: Show Local Time

sam · June 4, 2025, 11:03pm

can we drop the leading zero

It is a big improvement imo.

nathank · June 6, 2025, 2:04am

Ah, I missed that you were talking about repeating events sorry!

yaran · June 23, 2025, 9:46am

So, I have worked on this task for a while, since the last week, I see it can be structured into three sections and one question:

Avoid duplications and noisiness in from → to ranges:
- current year, no times (00:00):
  - same week/month range: Mon, Oct 6 → Fri, Oct 10 || Mon, Oct 6 → Mon, Oct 20
  - different months range: Mon, Oct 6 → Thu, Nov 6
- current year, with times:
  - same day range: Mon, Oct 6 12:00 AM → 1:00 AM
- different years, no times: Mon, Oct 6 → Tue, Jan 6, 2026
Show local time based on checked checkbox (in OP)
I observed some inconsistencies, when we display dates within range two days before and one day after today:
- with time: Yesterday/Today/Tomorrow 8:00 PM
- without time: Monday...Sunday
Sometimes timezone is shown in the end of datetime: Today 2:00 PM → 4:00 PM (UTC). Question: in which cases do we want to show timezone in brackets?

yaran · June 23, 2025, 1:46pm

I have two related PRs:

@nat, looping you in, since you worked on this feature years ago:

github.com/discourse/discourse

FEATURE: Omit showing day when 'to' day is same as 'from' day

main ← date-today

відкрито 10:08AM - 06 Oct 22 UTC

nattsw

+61 -7

Essentially, introducing this change. Saturday at 2:50 PM -> Saturday at 4:38… PM becomes Saturday at 2:50 PM -> 4:38 PM (Singapore) Also, the displayed dates are shortened when the standalone date is within two days. So despite the 'from' and 'to' date being the same day, it may show 'Saturday' for 'from', and the specific date for the 'to'. This corrects the behaviour. So if the current date and time is Thursday 5PM, the 'from' date below is within 2 days, but the 'to' date is not. Saturday at 2:50 PM -> 8 October 2022 at 9:38 PM becomes Saturday at 2:50 PM -> 9:38 PM

In which cases we should show a timezone name in brackets after the from/to date/time?
What are the expectations to show: weekday name Monday...Sunday or Yesterday/Today/Tomorrow?

I’d go with:
- Yesterday/Today/Tomorrow: for -1 day<-Today->+1 day
- Monday...Sunday: within current week or -3 days<-Today->+3 days
Presence of time should not be a decision factor of which of two options above to show, as it is now:
- no time: Monday...Sunday
- with time: Yesterday/Today/Tomorrow

yaran · June 23, 2025, 1:51pm

We are ready to merge the first PR. It is not ideal, since fixing edge cases, listed in my previous post might follow.

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