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Status page is using CDT instead of UTC or local time #28

Closed Mikaela closed 4 years ago

Mikaela commented 4 years ago

Service

status.privacytools.io / privacytools.statuspage.io

Describe the bug

The status page is using a timezone called "CDT" instead of the international timezone standard, Coordinated Universal TIme (UTC) leading to confusion when visitors have no idea what is CDT.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go to https://status.privacytools.io/ / https://privacytools.statuspage.io/ without knowing what is CDT or its offset to your local time.
  2. Look at any timestamp
  3. Wonder what that is in local time.

Expected behavior

All timestamps are either in UTC or in the local time reported by my web browser, so as someone who has to think international times can calculate the offset to local time easily and have an idea what the time is or I can directly see it in local time.

Screenshots

Matrix situation with timestamps in CDT

Scheduled maintenances in CDT

Desktop (please complete the following information):

Additional context

Using non-UTC timezone in a big international project or where audience is international just doesn't work. It's not realistic for everyone to learn all timezone abbreviations and their offsets if every project was using their own time instead of UTC.

UTC time can easily be gotten by date -u command. UTC time in international date formating (ISO 8601) can be gotten with date -Is -u.

jonaharagon commented 4 years ago

Fine

Mikaela commented 4 years ago

Thank you :purple_heart: