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mstringer
mstringer

Reputation: 2302

How to include a time zone in the way formatted slack dates are displayed?

The ability to use date formatting in the Slack API to display a date/time in the local timezone of the person seeing the message is great, but I'd like people to know that the date/time is in their local timezone.

Using <!date^1392734382^{date_short_pretty} {time}|2014-02-18 6:39 AM PST> will display as "Posted Feb 18, 2014 6:39 AM" if the receiver is in California, and "Posted Feb 18, 2014 8:39 AM" if the receiver is in Chicago (see here in Block Kit Builder) but there is no indication to the receivers that the date/time is in their own timezone.

Is there any way to include the receiver's time zone as part of the token string?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2394

Answers (1)

Erik Kalkoken
Erik Kalkoken

Reputation: 32737

This is not a feature that is provided by the API. The only solution I can think of is to add some info text like "(local time)" to the datetime output in your message.

Upvotes: 1

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