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That seems confusing to me. It would be better if Zulip just added the local timezone to the time instead of modifying what you send to people. Do you mean it shows it in a hover or tooltip?

Seems like there should be deadly sins for certain fields, and one such deadly sin is for an instant messenger to change what you send to people.

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It appears that you have to type it in a specific format, and the localized time is displayed with different formatting than the rest of the message. See: https://zulip.com/help/global-times

> A date picker will appear once you type `<time`.

> Our next meeting is scheduled for <time:2020-05-28T13:30:00+05:30>

> A person in San Francisco will see:

> Our next meeting is scheduled for Thu, May 28 2020, 1:00 AM.

> While someone in India will see:

> Our next meeting is scheduled for Thu, May 28 2020, 1:30 PM.

Discord recognizes <t:{{unix_time}}:format>

https://discordtimestamp.com/

That's effectively an API feature only: There's no button or typeahead for entering it. Zulip's version is a first-class feature with a compose box button and typeahead, designed to be convenient enough that humans routinely use it rather than typing "10 Pacific time".

Here’s a message where you can see what this feature looks like (no login required): https://chat.zulip.org/#narrow/stream/101-design/topic/clock...

(Note that the sender opts in to this with a specific syntax; we don’t try to heuristically match anything that looks like a time.)

Yup that was how I imagined it, makes a lot of sense. Thanks for clarifying.

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