#Implementing Discord-Like Unix Timestamps within In-Game Chat for Easier Event/Clan Organization

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**Feature Request: ** Please implement Discord-like unix timestamp functionality into the in-game chat box. Existing formatting/functionality may be "borrowed" from sites, like hammertime. Timestamps automatically format a string of numbers into a formatted date/time, on the client end, to streamline coordination for events/raids/groups. For example, <t:1764643860:F> would appears as <t:1764643860:F> (which says Monday, December 1st, 2025 9:51 PM for me, as a US East coast player, but will appear in your own local timezone).

Pros/Cons of Feature: Players have more reason to remain within the game when coordinating multiplayer events with friends, randoms, or clan mates rather than jumping out of the game to navigate towards social apps like Discord servers. Naturally, the organizing player still needs to leave the game app to grab the timestamp but all other players would benefit from remaining within the app. It is my personal belief that smaller clans don't have a lot of coordination because it's too much effort to ask players to go join yet another discord server that will just end up in a muted folder a few days later. This feature may help boost these smaller clan's activity.

What Is A Bare-Minimum Implementation?: While Discord creates a fancy background/border for formatted timestamps, we can keep things relatively simple in game by updating the client chat script to search and replace strings containing "<t:##########:?>" with a system/local time based on that unix time that is wrapped with some form of text border to identify the localized timestamp, like "<" or "[". This would help experienced players know that that specific timestamp is showing in their local time and that they don't need to do any mental gymnastics, themselves. Depending on how chat logs currently work, this kind of string manipulation may only need to be done by the client device once, when the message is initially received, rather than any time the chat box is opened.

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