Posts tagged "i18n"

JavaScript date and time localization

This post has been a long time coming.

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It's unacceptable for any website or web application to output dates and times using an arbitrary time zone. Displaying dates and times in UTC/GMT is only slightly better: dates cannot be relied upon, and users must perform mental gymnastics in order to localize date–time combos.