As a site visitor, I want to see timestamps on articles and promos display in the time zone that I have configured for my computer and not the time zone of the website to help prevent confusion and making the user convert time zones. (Time zones are hard!)
Here are a couple examples:
If an article is published at 6:00AM EDT by a website in the Eastern Time zone, then the following should display for the different site visitors:
Site visitor configured for Atlanta/ET: 6:00AM EDT
Site visitor configured for Chicago/CT: 5:00AM CDT
Site visitor configured for Denver/MT: 4:00AM MDT
Site visitor configured for Seattle/PT: 3:00AM PDT
If an article is published at 6:00AM PDT by a website in the Pacific Time zone, then the following should display for the different site visitors:
Site visitor configured for Atlanta/ET: 9:00AM EDT
Site visitor configured for Chicago/CT: 8:00AM CDT
Site visitor configured for Denver/MT: 7:00AM MDT
Site visitor configured for Seattle/PT: 6:00AM PDT
At quick glance, it seems that Washington Post articles are configured exactly this way so they might be a resource to investigate.
Sara Skinner Cole
Following up to see if the performance investigation has been completed? This is still a desired improvement that we would like to see so that our stories don't look outdated to a reader in a different timezone.
Hi Sara - thanks for this idea. We'll need to investigate the performance considerations on our end to determine if this is feasible without negatively impacting performance. I'll update this idea once we have done that investigation.