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Update the date shown in audit logs to use and display the server time zone

Tally Tarik requested to merge tallytarik/gitlab:tt-242014-show-time-zone-in-audit-logs into master

What does this MR do and why?

Changes the display of dates in audit event tables to:

  1. Use the server time zone, and
  2. Show the time zone.

This was discussed in #242014 (closed). Note that there didn't seem to be consensus about exactly how to display the time zone, and whether to do it on the frontend or backend. I think this change is a good first step to solve the problem for most customers reporting the issue (myself included!).

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Before After
Screenshot_2022-10-07_at_12-04-05_Audit_Events___Flightjs___Flight___GitLab Screenshot_2022-10-07_at_12-02-47_Audit_Events___Flightjs___Flight___GitLab

How to set up and validate locally

  1. Ensure a project has an audit event, or create one
  2. View the project's audit event list, like http://127.0.0.1:3000/flightjs/Flight/-/audit_events
  3. Note the 'Date' column should show the server's time zone at the end (for example, 'UTC'). The date shown should also be in this time zone.

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