You'll notice the times are automatically shown in your local time zone. Because the page assumes this timezone feature will work, it doesn't *say* what timezone the times are listed relative to. Without timezone reporting, the page would probably default to GMT or something and be poorly usable.
@brandon@gourd This becomes more problematic if you consider a page which rather than being for entertainment is something where the time is critical, for example an airplane booking site.
@mcc@brandon Or absolutely hilarious cases like Best Buy refusing to let you place pickup orders if the store is closed based on your local browser time instead of checking on their end.
@mcc@brandon I have been so tempted to use this to place an order for pickup for during when the store is closed and see what happens, but I don't want to mess with random store employees.
@brandon@mcc Timestamps on social media posts, for one.
Half the reason I moved to a Mastodon Glitch Edition server was it lets you manually set time zone so I could have sensical Mastodon timestamps and ResistFingerprinting on.
Gregory's Server
@brandon @gourd For example, here is the schedule page for "Games Done Quick", a biyearly event I am a fan of.
https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule/48
You'll notice the times are automatically shown in your local time zone. Because the page assumes this timezone feature will work, it doesn't *say* what timezone the times are listed relative to. Without timezone reporting, the page would probably default to GMT or something and be poorly usable.