basecamp/local_time

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2002 stars · 125 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Rails engine with a companion JavaScript component that renders <time> elements in UTC server-side and converts them to the browser's local time on the client. This keeps pages cache-friendly while still showing users times and dates in their own timezone.

Use cases

• display timestamps in the user's local timezone in a Rails app
• show cached pages with correct local times
• render relative 'time ago' strings like '5 minutes ago'
• format dates and times client-side with strftime patterns
• avoid per-user timezone caching problems

When to choose

• you have a Rails app with page or fragment caching and need per-user local times
• you want simple <time> element localization without heavy JS frameworks
• you need relative time-ago display that updates in the browser

When to avoid

• your app is not built on Ruby on Rails
• you need full i18n/localization beyond date and time formatting
• you need a complete strftime implementation with all directives

Facets

library · maturity stable

templating date-time frontend-framework web-development backend browser ruby rails-engine timezone cache-friendly time-display client-side-rendering localization web-server javascript nodejs

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