Ask HN: Best way to show local time

[slow_donkey]

HN and others don't seem to require JS to show localized timestamps. Currently I'm using a library (Luxon) to convert iso8601 clientside from UTC. Is there a better way of approaching this?

Not sure IP is really a better solution but would love to get thoughts.

[yorwba]

Are you sure HN localizes timestamps?

[slow_donkey → yorwba]

Good point, looks like relative time for recent dates. Could very well be server time for old threads.

Might be viable and is arguably a more user friendly approach. Thanks!