oxidecomputer / oxidecomputer/console

Explicit time zones

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Description

Related to #1875, about falling back to UTC if browser time zone is not recognized. In general we take UTC timestamps from the API and display them in the user’s local time. It would be good to say the time zone when we do that. It might also be nice to be able to get everything in UTC if desired. This could be a user setting stored in the DB. We don’t really have any of those yet, but we could!

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Research direction

Start by reading related issue #1875 and tracing how UTC API timestamps are converted to the browser’s local time. Before implementation, clarify whether the goal is displaying the selected time zone, supporting a UTC preference, or both; done should be defined by an agreed user-facing behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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