@gnprice can i work on this?

Sure. Do see our guide to picking an issue:
https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/contributing.html#picking-an-issue-to-work-on

so in particular before claiming an issue, you should have already gotten started working on it, finding the relevant piece of code and getting an idea of how you'll approach it.

Also note this issue is in the "Post-launch" milestone, not "Launch" or earlier. That means the core team will have limited time to spend helping with this issue for the next few months. But I think the issue is simple enough that that should be fine.

@gnprice I had a shot at this issue and is the result

The device i am using is my Techno Spark 7 -
Android 11
Here is the result: the time stamps were changed to a more readable date format

Before making a PR, I would like to verify if a change like this would require that tests be made or updated? since I just added a method to the widget to format the date.

In the course of solving this issue, i added localization to transform the time to the local of the user; it address #278 for this date.