timezone

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Timezones are regions with a uniform time offset from UTC, used for activities in that region, including when blog posts are published or edited, and are often a challenge in software due to both regular (DST) changes, and occasional political changes.

Why

Using your local timezone, e.g. for publishing, helps you keep something in common with the times that people use in your local area.

IndieWeb Examples

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Tantek

Tantek Çelik stores and publishes his posts in his home timezone (including DST if any) since he started blogging in 2002, no matter where he is publishing from, e.g. when traveling in other timezones.

Niklas Siefke

Niklas Siefke stores post dates with their full local timezone offset (e.g. 2026-07-20T23:30:00+02:00), never as UTC. When Micropub clients don't send a published timestamp, the server generates one using a configurable AUTHOR_TZ environment variable (default Europe/Oslo). URLs follow the author's wall-clock calendar day, computed from the stored offset rather than UTC. Display shows the numeric offset with a hover tooltip revealing the visitor's local time.