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jQuery snippet to display a timestamp in local time zone and language

$(function() {
  $.each($('.timestamp'), function(i, v) {
	  ts = $(v)
		ts.text((new Date(ts.text())).toLocaleString());
	})
});

Return UTC timestamps from your server. Apply the timestamp class to any element containing them to format it on the frontend.

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