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Comment by sixhobbits | Hacker News Reader

Genuinely curious,

My possibly biased perception is that people in Europe are more "internationally aware" (for lack of a better word) than those in the US. e.g. a website that is built in Europe but likely to attract international interest will include a timezone.

The schedule[0] for this just has dates and times. I have no idea when anything is, though some of it looks interesting.

Is there a "default" timezone that Americans assume on an American-centric site that doesn't actually state timezones? California?

[0] https://cloudflare.tv/schedule

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While Europe is more internationally aware, I think the U.S. is more timezone aware. Most people in the UK think of times as being "GMT" (even in summer when it's GMT+1). In Europe almost everywhere is CET (UK+1, so GMT+1 in winter, GMT+2 in summer). Timezones only really kick in intercontinentally

In the US every TV show says something like "join us at 9/8c" - timezones are far more in your day-to-day life - certainly in the past when TV was popular.

The site shows the schedule in local time, or specifically, whatever the browser thinks is local time. There's an orange horizontal line for "now".

I think it's just local ;) I'm in CEST (UTC+2), so it's 12:22 pm right now, and schedule page shows that orange line in 12:00 PM box.

But I agree - it should mention timezone or if it's local time. I saw "AM/PM" and also assumed it was some "stupid" American time.

My (grossly over-simplified) experience has been that European services tend to focus a lot more on localization than US-based ones, with the latter focusing a lot more on time zone issues, since that is a topic very relevant to the US. Not so much in Europe, where most countries share the same time zone with their neighbors and are only situated in a single one themselves.

Based on the fact that it gets my current time right (in Asia), I have to assume it adjusts to whatever location you are connecting from.

Times are all adjusted to be local to you. And we’re trying to create content in languages that are local to the time zones around the world.

In my experience it's usually EST timezone (Eastern Time Zone). Currently that's UTC-4.

That is usually true for a lot of timezone-free times for U.S.-based companies, but the article states that the inaugural broadcast is 12 PM Pacific time (PDT), which is UTC-7. The schedule lists this broadcast as occurring at 12 PM, which aligns with it being set to Pacific time. Makes sense, as Cloudflare is based in San Francisco.

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