Time Stamp in Chat

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Hi, the chat window is very nifty. It is very helpful to see if any of my 4PC-Team buddies are online. Problem is... whenever we send messages on chat, we don't know when the messages were sent. So sometimes I login in the morning, and the message was actually sent 8 hour earlier while I was asleep. And while I am used to converting my local time to UTC, a lot of the players do not understand how to convert their local times to UTC. Since we all live in different corners of the world, it would be very helpful if there was a setting where all times were automatically converted to either UTC, or to our own local time.

So, I have noticed that chess.com functions mainly in EST/PST (completely ignoring the fact that a lot of its members aren't from the Americas), that can create a lot of confusion especially during DST, because in some parts of the world we're not informed when other countries switch to DST. But if everyone functioned in UTC... or if there was an algorithm which automatically converted times to each player's local time... then that would be truly amazing, especially when we want to play/team-up with players in other time-zones.

Also, knowing what time the chat message was sent... like the way it is in WhatsApp, would not leave any room for confusion.