This post got me thinking: on Discord we’ve been using “HammerTime tags” so the time in a message was being translated to everyone’s local time. Here it would, of course, necessitate everyone to set up their timezone in the settings but apart from that, I guess it could be doable too, right?

  • INeedMana@piefed.zipOP
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    3 months ago

    Oh. Right. Markdown has no concept of that

    But as ```C++ exists, I guess there could be `UTC

    • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com
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      3 months ago

      I think they should replicate Discord’s format since it’s already popular and there are tools already made for it. They can maybe also reuse the name “hammer time” so users are aware