# How do I show time in +8 time zone?

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-do-i-show-time-in-8-time-zone/28560>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [September 29, 2020, 2:54am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-do-i-show-time-in-8-time-zone/28560 "2020-09-29T02:54:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![hendry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/hendry/32/7037_2.png) [@hendry](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/hendry)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 2:54am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-do-i-show-time-in-8-time-zone/28560/1 "2020-09-29T02:54:16Z")

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> <https://github.com/kaihendry/dabase.com/commit/922844949444485211864b9c51cfaa2e31bd8396>

I’m a little confused because .dateFormat looks deprecated? [https://gohugo.io/functions/dateformat/](https://gohugo.io/functions/dateformat/)

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**Author:** ![davidsneighbour](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/davidsneighbour/32/24507_2.png) [@davidsneighbour](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/davidsneighbour)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 11:03am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-do-i-show-time-in-8-time-zone/28560/2 "2020-09-29T11:03:58Z")

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Nothing says deprecated there? My frontmatter has the following:

```auto
date: 2005-01-07T03:00:00+07:00

```

And it’s 3am in UTC+7.