Tooltip Timezones

[bdowling]

What would you like to be added?

Relative datetime columns such as Created show up with a tool-tip that has no timezone. On relatively recent events, one can infer that this is actually the browser's host timezone, but there is no indication of that. Any thoughts to adjusting format (currently is medium) this to include a timezone attribute?

dashboard/modules/web/src/common/components/date/template.html

Line 18 in e175cf1

[matTooltip]="date | date: format">

dashboard/modules/web/src/common/components/date/component.ts

Line 45 in e175cf1

@Input() format = 'medium';

https://angular.io/api/common/DatePipe

Why is this needed?

Sometimes it's important to know exactly when things happened and without a timezone the user could guess thinking everything was in UTC or system time for example.

[floreks]

This tooltip always shows the UTC time of the server AFAIR. This is just a plain creationTimestamp field of the resource. We can add UTC information there for clarity.

[bdowling]

I originally thought they'd be UTC as well, based on historical issues noted in this repo, but in practice I found it was localtime. It uses the angular DatePipe mentioned above without defining a TZ, so it defaults to host/browser timezone. From a user standpoint, this is more intuitive IMHO in a browser context even though DevOps folks often work with systems in UTC timezone. I just think it should display a timezone regardless.

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