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Add UTC in the WSContest contest page
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Description

Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):

In WSContest Tool, please add the timezone (e.g. default is UTC) in the display, to avoid confusion with the local timezone.

For example, in https://wscontest.toolforge.org/c/93 it only says:

Start date and time: 2023-03-06 00:00:00
End date and time: 2023-03-20 00:00:01

it should be changed to:

Start date and time: 2023-03-06 00:00:00 UTC
End date and time: 2023-03-20 00:00:01 UTC

Use case(s) (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution):

In one of the Wikisource competition that's currently being held, one participant confuses the display time 00.00 as local timezone, because there's no indication in that page that its' UTC timezone.

Benefits (why should this be implemented?):

Avoid confusion, clarify things. Because the world timezones are a mess.

Event Timeline


@Bennylin how about adding a timezone selector feature beside the start and end date and time? Then remove (Times are in UTC timezone) below the start and end date and time on the contest creation page of the WSContest tool.

for now, can I add the UTC and I will start working on adding the change time-zone feature, can I work on this?

@AFZL210 Go for it! Assign this task to yourself, then prepare a patch and send a pull request (link it here).

@Samwilson thank you! I'll try to create a patch soon

PMenon-WMF subscribed.

Hi @AFZL210, removing you from this task since it has been stale for quite a while. Feel free to re-assign it to yourself if you are still working on it!