Profiles learn to tell local time
A new switch puts a ticking clock beside your location, so visitors can see what time it is where you are. It stays off until you ask for it.
You open a profile that has opted in, and the little detail row under the avatar gains a clock. It reads 11:06 (UTC +02:00), right after the map pin. Leave the tab open and the minutes turn over while you watch.
The switch comes from Taldres, who added one true-or-false field to the account, off by default. In Settings → Timezone, tick "Show my local time on my profile" and save. Guests and members then see the clock on your profile. The browser redraws it every 60 seconds, and the offset comes from the timezone data your machine already carries, so Berlin reads +02:00 in July and +01:00 in January. A zone with no offset reads plain UTC, and unsetting your timezone flips the switch off in the database too.
One catch. The server sends no time at all. The visitor's browser draws the clock from its own clock. Set a machine's clock wrong, or turn scripts off, and the profile shows a wrong time or none. Your profile's time is only as good as the computer reading it.
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- resources/
js/ local-time.tsxcomponents/ - resources/
js/ timezone-picker.tsxcomponents/ - resources/
js/ show.tsxpages/ user/ - resources/
js/ utils.tslib/ - app/
Actions/ UpdateUserTimezone.php - app/
Http/ UpdateUserTimezoneRequest.phpRequests/ - app/
Models/ User.php - database/
migrations/ 2026_10_20_120000_add_show_local_time_to_users_table.php