[Feature] Discord style timestamps

[HelmicNewciv]

Discord has a feature where you can post Unix timestamps to chat and have it display in a human-readable format on other clients based on the reader's timezone, as shown here: https://gist.github.com/LeviSnoot/d9147767abeef2f770e9ddcd91eb85aa . This makes it much easier to coordinate times over different timezones.

It has a few options missing that would be nice to have, like "Tuesdays at 4:00 PM", but copying over that exact format for Commet would allow users to use existing Discord timestamp tools to post times into chat without having to direct people to a calendar channel.

Simply handling the display of messages with those timestamps would be sufficient in the short term. Having a glossier modal window to help with generating a timestamp would be ideal, as would a "fast" way to generate it using just text - Vencord has a plugin that lets you type 4:00pm and when the message is sent that's replaced with a timestamp.

[Airyzz]

I agree this would be a good feature, and is something I would like to add.

I think it could be fomatted in html as something like:

<span data-commet-timestamp="1777682565">4:00pm</span>

this way, clients which dont support it will still render '4:00pm' by default. my only concern with this, would be that this information would be sufficient to reveal some information about your timezone, and in turn very approximately your location, as it shows how a specific timestamp corresponds to your local time.

This probably isn't really a big problem in practice, as if you are trying to organize something across different timezones, you would likely be willing to share this information in the first place but I think it is worth mentioning.

[ollietheotter983]

my only concern with this, would be that this information would be sufficient to reveal some information about your timezone, and in turn very approximately your location, as it shows how a specific timestamp corresponds to your local time.

If you're deliberately formatting a message in a way that shows what time something is in a particular timezone, I doubt that it'd really be a problem, particularly because fro‎m what I've seen, to get around this not existing, people will often say what time it would be at their timezone (e.g. "12:00pm GMT")

[HelmicNewciv]

4:00pm
this way, clients which dont support it will still render '4:00pm' by default. my only concern with this, would be that this information would be sufficient to reveal some information about your timezone, and in turn very approximately your location, as it shows how a specific timestamp corresponds to your local time.

I think you can avoid this by just having it display "00:42 / 12:42 AM UTC" by default. That's the easiest time for people to convert from anyways because there's no DST shenanigans.

I do like the idea though, you could also do "3 hours, 5 minutes from now" for relative timestamps and so on.