#dev 2026-07-20
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WinnerWind [tantek]: on the subject of short domains, i think the rememberability of a domain is much more important than its brevity. a while ago i had the domain ww.in.d (on a local net) and i remember hating having to type that in
# WinnerWind hence why im happy with winnerwind.in
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# WinnerWind [tantek]: spam alert, common discord spam making the rounds
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[niklasfyi] How do you handle timezones on your blogs? Currently, my blog just shows UTC. But if I am using a micropub client that uses my local timezone I run into problems. For instance yesterday I posted something right after midnight which was related to the day I was posting on. But due to my blog showing UTC the date on the post on the blog was the day before. How do you do that? Decide on a Timezone for the blog? Show the actual timezone from
# [niklasfyi] when it was posted?
# WinnerWind i decided to keep it opinionated and decide what timezone the user should see (i.e. my own timezone, IST), and then add "IST" to the end of the time
# [niklasfyi] Right now that makes more sense to me as well. I was just wondering how I would handle that if I ever was on vacation on the other side of the world 😄 But usually I travel in europe so ±1 h doesn't really matter
# WinnerWind [niklasfyi]: if it helps, i encode the timezone in the date string itself (using the ISO format)
# WinnerWind this way its both usable and computer readable
# [niklasfyi] [aaronpk] That's interesting. Could be weird when you post in one timezone and then cross date lines and post again and the post shows up in the list before the other one 😄 (or am I confused here?)
# [niklasfyi] Yep. I do ISO aswell. But I am using a SSG and save the files in YYYY/MM/DD folders. But there it might makes sense to stick to my "home" timezone for saving the files
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[aciccarello] [niklasfyi] I have a static site. I render everything in UTC but have client-side JS re-write that to the local browser time.
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Loqi [aciccarello]: [artlung] left you a message 2 days, 19 hours ago: to check out https://github.com/keithjgrant/local-micropub by [keithjgrant] when you get back from vacation
# [aciccarello] Oh cool! Good to see Keith J Grant doing more micropub stuff
# [aciccarello] I had been using Indiekit for some micropub testing in Omnibear but it's overkill for that use case. Might switch to this.
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# [aciccarello] This post is a good example of my site. The date in the slug is UTC but for US timezones it'll show a date of May 16th. https://www.ciccarello.me/posts/2026/05/17/kids-birding/
# Loqi [preview] [Anthony Ciccarello] Thanks to my family for coming out this morning. It was fun sharing the birds with both the kids and adults. The indigo buntings and orioles were a big hit and it was really cool having the bald eagles to fly over for us. Even with the big group we s... https://www.ciccarello.me/assets/img/2026-05-kids-birding-kneeling.jpg
# [aciccarello] On blog posts I don't show the time it was posted but I do still update the date
# [aciccarello] The code for that is pretty simple. https://github.com/aciccarello/ciccarello.me/blob/aab264fa4271370cd89999ff04abc79b10edcda8/assets/js/common.js#L10-L27
# [aciccarello] What's an in game jam?
# tdrayson I store local wall-clock time plus the timezone it happened in, never UTC, and display it with the offset (Wed 1 Jul 2026, 9:30am +01:00) so the date in my permalink always matches the day I actually experienced.
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# [aciccarello] I'm trying to remember why I made my choice. I think some micropub clients don't pass the local timezone so I often only had UTC and no offset information.
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# [aciccarello] I also like the idea that if I were posting about a live event (like a sports game), someone could see it in their time and know at what point it was posted.
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# [aciccarello] Oh cool
# [aciccarello] Reminds me of the css challenges [artlung] does.
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# Loqi Timezones are names used to highlight regions on the globe that are used to define a uniform time for society's use (legal, finance, social) https://indieweb.org/timezone
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# courtneyr_dev Hey folks - I've been working on a WP plugin to support Post Kinds in block themes. I've gotten approval to submit it. :D
# courtneyr_dev I did a security audit of the plugin, and its dependencies, and found something to disclose. Can you point me to the disclosure policy
# courtneyr_dev thanks, headed over :)
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