Did you know there is quite easy way to show localized dates and times on your website? You can use the HTML time element to display dates and times i

Easy date and time localization with the time HTML element - Kevin Woblick's Blog

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2024-10-31 09:30:19

Did you know there is quite easy way to show localized dates and times on your website? You can use the HTML time element to display dates and times in the user’s locale and timezone without having to guess the user’s locale, rely on profiles or settings, or doing any backend work.

Let’s start with the basics. The time element is used to represent either a time on a 24-hour clock or a precise date in the Gregorian calendar (with optional time and timezone information). The time element can be used with the datetime attribute to represent a machine-readable date/time/period which improves accessibility for both bots and impaired users. The time element is supported by all modern browsers and even Internet Explorer 11.

JavaScript offers a convenient method to localize dates and times with the toLocaleDateString() and toLocaleTimeString() methods of the Date object. We can use them to localize the date and time output from above: