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Comment by dailypeeker | Hacker News Reader

What is a status page that has the time without timezone

There is a note regarding time zones at the bottom of the page: "All times are shown in your local timezone unless otherwise noted."

It should still say the assumed TZ as others note. Many people use VPNs and geo-ip lookup is not infallible anyway.

Edit: Apparently it's browser settings, which means you need scripting enabled for this page.

Which timezone is my local timezone? A bunch of geolocation systems think I'm in Paris. I'm in Melbourne. (My ISP bought an IP block that used to be registered to a French company).

That's a considerable difference.

It's not geolocation - just a javascript function to ask the browser what the UTC offset of your local time is. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091372/getting-the-clie...

Which JavaScript function? The two main ones return two differing results for my browser.

  Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone

  > "Australia/Melbourne"

Which is UTC +11.

   new Date().getTimezoneOffset()

   > -710

Which is roughly UTC +11.8.

If you're going to shoebox me into a particular timezone - tell me what it is, and let me change it.

I'm in spain and my geolocation is also always wrong.

This irks me even on statuspage.io pages (I think?) where times are in PST or something quite often.

Very surprising it’s not localised.

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