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Could anyone change that lame small image? Tetra quark (talk) 00:19, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Currently the template displays Current time is: and then some random time next to it. Yes there is an update button there too but I think it's not a very helpful feature all in all. Let's get rid of it? At least if somebody wants to keep it, then the wording needs to be changed to emphasize that this shown date is some random cached date... Aye, nay? --Palosirkka (talk) 11:18, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Aye. FL0per (talk) 15:38, 2 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Having just seen this twenty minutes out of date on an article, it's a cute idea but doesn't really work in practice. With no objections in this thread since 2018 I've been bold and removed it. --Belbury (talk) 09:37, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Just encountered this again, now running 58 minutes slow, after it was apparently added back last December. Still seems a bad idea and no reason was given for restoring it (edit summary just re-adding current date and time template), so I've removed it from the template again. --Belbury (talk) 18:38, 28 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I don't agree with this reasoning. It is a very helpful and useful thing in understanding about the concept of time from a reader's point of view. I had changed and updated the content for it as well but all the good changes have been undone. I fully believe that it should be re-added back. TheGeneralUser (talk) 14:55, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What help do you see it as providing?

I can see that it might be useful if we could say to a reader of the Time article, perhaps in the body of the text itself, for example the time right now in your time zone is 3:07pm. But a strong reason for not doing that is that it's not technically possible, the best we can manage is for example when this page was last cached, it was 2:42pm, which raises as many questions as it answers.

In a template, though, a reader of an article like Futures studies or ISO 8601 doesn't seem like they'd need help in understanding the concept of the time of day. Belbury (talk) 15:07, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I was specially talking about its usefulness in the Time article and had changed the wording for it accordingly. If there is a way it can be added just for the time article with even better wording, I would greatly appreciate that. TheGeneralUser (talk) 15:16, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If it's only useful to one specific article, it might be better to just put some kind of unique template on that page - that way you'd also have more space to explain what it was. From the archives that very idea was discussed and boldly implemented in 2010. Maybe it's worth raising the idea again at Talk:Time. --Belbury (talk) 15:21, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can somebody tell me where the CSS file for this template is located? I've imported the template into arywiki, but somehow the titles don't get centered no matter what I tried (apart from writing html and css directly into the template, which I want to avoid).-- Ideophagous (talk) 23:41, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind. I fixed the issue. Ideophagous (talk) 23:52, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]