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Improving Timezone Clarity for Tightknit Event Announcements

Hey! QQ: So I was hosting an event and announced it via Tightknit events. I now realise that the time on the announcement is using my local time (Berlin) and does not mention the timezone. Pretty confusing! Any chance we can:

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decide for the displayed timezone
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add the timezone to the times so there is no confusion?

The same is true for both the slack message and the website event Thanks! cc Zach H.

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Zach H.
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Ah, ya, this is one of the hardest problems. We adjust the timezone to the user’s timezone (I’m currently EST so it shows 2PM). Slack does a really good job of letting you select a time with their time component, but they don’t let you choose the timezone yet. Any thoughts on what the best experience for this would be?
Marvin A.
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Gotcha! I remember now we talked about this before. I think the most simple solution would be the timezone for both the event card on the website and the slack message e.g. 11:00 AM PT or Pacific Time Would that be possible?
Zach H.
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The event card on the website = yes (filing ticket now) The slack message = kinda. If we do it on the Slack message, it’ll be hardcoded to that time for everyone. That still preferable?
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Stephen C.
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I want to clarify what is happening on the event announcement message in Slack: This actually uses a Slack date component that displays the time based on each user's personal timezone. Thus each user will see the time differently, which is pretty nifty. Although Slack currently doesn't support displaying the timezone in the date. If we did not use this component, it would force a single time + timezone to be displayed for all users. We could put in a feature request that Slack adds a timezone display in their date component, so every user sees their personal timezone. Would that, or the hard-coded timezone for all users, be preferable?
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Marvin A.
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alright! I’d be totally fine with hardcoded (single) time + timezone and not the dynamic version. dynamic time + time zone would be the cherry on top 🍒
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