Allow users to set their timezone and locale

[luchaos]

For displaying timestamps in web interface. Leverage Carbon PHP library features for transformation on backend side and moment.js for the frontend.

Related:

#701

[KingS1zzle]

This would be a cool quality of life feature. Since I joined I decided to add a second clock just to keep track of when things are posted.

This isn't that much of a hassle but would be a better solution than adding a second clock to your pc and hovering over to see when it was posted.

[redwizard42]

Yeah. I always see the timestamps on the website and my brain goes, "What's that in local time?" and then I forget what timezone the site is in and I give up.

[suspect15]

I hate to admit it, but I'm the same way. GMT basically means nothing to me as I can never easily orient myself to it despite it only being a simple subtraction.

[Xeinok-Pals]

This would still definitely be a huge upgrade in terms of maturity and QoL - are there any major technical hurdles to this?

[wescopeland]

Yes. This has about the same complexity as username changes until the UI is migrated to React.

[thatonedood]

Commenting here just to show support for this idea, would be awesome to be implemented. I understand that there are technical hurdles, just voicing my support.

[vizthex123]

i'd love to have this. My dumb brain assumes it's just a simple "subtract X hours from the tooltip when users hover over it", but i'm sure it's a lot more complicated than that lol.