Show the remaining ban time on a ban

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  • I vote for displaying the remaining duration of the ban and not the timestamp at which the unban takes place. I'm not a fan of the local timezone idea because geolocation doesn't work if the user is using a VPN, and without the local timezone it requires too much effort to convert. Displaying the remaining duration, on the other hand, is a very simple calculation internally and is always immediately clear.

  • I don't like the idea of trying to be smart with timezones, it'll end up in a mess especially with things like BST vs GMT and all that mess.

    Bans should be stores as UTC anyway and anyone should be able to google their way through that.

    I am happy with the idea of adding the time remaining to the ban message, possibly replacing it with the exact time stamp going forward.

    FS-208 raised to add remaining time to ban screens.

    Wild1145

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