diff --git a/src/app/legacy/psammead/psammead-timestamp-container/src/utilities/index.ts b/src/app/legacy/psammead/psammead-timestamp-container/src/utilities/index.ts
index 76e5b73ce6e..50b1b2607d8 100644
--- a/src/app/legacy/psammead/psammead-timestamp-container/src/utilities/index.ts
+++ b/src/app/legacy/psammead/psammead-timestamp-container/src/utilities/index.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,34 @@ moment.relativeTimeThreshold('h', 24);
 moment.relativeTimeThreshold('d', 30);
 moment.relativeTimeThreshold('M', 12);
 
+const sanitiseDuration = (duration: ISODuration) => {
+  const durationApi = globalThis.Temporal?.Duration;
+
+  if (!durationApi) {
+    return { total: () => 0 };
+  }
+
+  try {
+    return durationApi.from(duration);
+  } catch {
+    return durationApi.from('PT0S'); // fallback to 0 seconds if the duration is invalid
+  }
+};
+
+// Extra confirmation
+// const normaliseLocale = (locale?: string): string | undefined => {
+//   if (!locale) return undefined;
+//   const transformedLocaleToBCP47LangTag = locale.replace(/_/g, '-');
+//   try {
+//     return Intl.getCanonicalLocales(transformedLocaleToBCP47LangTag)[0];
+//   } catch {
+//     return undefined;
+//   }
+// };
+
+const transformLocaleToBCP47LangTag = (locale: Locale) =>
+  locale.replace(/_/g, '-');
+
 export const formatDuration = ({
   duration,
   format,
@@ -31,12 +59,45 @@ export const formatDuration = ({
   format?: string;
   locale?: Locale;
 }): string => {
-  const defaultDurationFormat = duration?.includes('H') ? 'h:mm:ss' : 'mm:ss';
-  const durationInMilliseconds = moment.duration(duration).asMilliseconds();
-  return moment
-    .utc(durationInMilliseconds)
-    .locale(locale)
-    .format(format || defaultDurationFormat);
+  const formattedLocale = transformLocaleToBCP47LangTag(locale) || undefined;
+
+  const totalSeconds = sanitiseDuration(duration).total({
+    unit: 'seconds',
+  });
+  const hours = Math.floor(totalSeconds / 3600);
+  const minutes = Math.floor((totalSeconds % 3600) / 60);
+  const seconds = Math.floor(totalSeconds % 60);
+
+  // note, using Intl.NumberFormat and Intl.Locale does not take into account overrides in psammead-locales/moment
+  const translateDigits = (timeValueAsNumber: number, minDigits: number) =>
+    // Using this instead of src/app/legacy/psammead/psammead-locales/src/numerals/index.js since this is a safe usecase.
+    new Intl.NumberFormat(formattedLocale, {
+      minimumIntegerDigits: minDigits,
+      useGrouping: false,
+    }).format(timeValueAsNumber);
+
+  const withArabicComma = (str: string) => {
+    if (!formattedLocale) return str;
+    return new Intl.Locale(formattedLocale).maximize().script === 'Arab'
+      ? str.replace(/,/g, '\u060C')
+      : str;
+  };
+
+  if (format) {
+    return withArabicComma(
+      format
+        .replace('h', translateDigits(hours, 1))
+        .replace('mm', translateDigits(minutes, 2))
+        .replace('ss', translateDigits(seconds, 2))
+        .replace('m', translateDigits(minutes, 1)),
+    );
+  }
+
+  return withArabicComma(
+    hours > 0
+      ? `${translateDigits(hours, 1)}:${translateDigits(minutes, 2)}:${translateDigits(seconds, 2)}`
+      : `${translateDigits(minutes, 2)}:${translateDigits(seconds, 2)}`,
+  );
 };
 
 // if the date is invalid return false - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1353684/detecting-an-invalid-date-date-instance-in-javascript#answer-1353711
diff --git a/src/testHelpers/jest-setup.js b/src/testHelpers/jest-setup.js
index f50d1d857e4..c655f091437 100644
--- a/src/testHelpers/jest-setup.js
+++ b/src/testHelpers/jest-setup.js
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 /* eslint-disable max-classes-per-file */
 import { jest } from '@jest/globals';
+import 'temporal-polyfill/global';
 import path from 'path';
 import { TextEncoder, TextDecoder } from 'util';
 import { ReadableStream } from 'node:stream/web';
diff --git a/ws-nextjs-app/setupTests.ts b/ws-nextjs-app/setupTests.ts
index b8860e92d74..db18a7e860f 100644
--- a/ws-nextjs-app/setupTests.ts
+++ b/ws-nextjs-app/setupTests.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import '@testing-library/jest-dom';
+import 'temporal-polyfill/global';
 import { TextEncoder, TextDecoder } from 'node:util';
 import { ReadableStream } from 'node:stream/web';
 import { MessageChannel, MessagePort } from 'node:worker_threads';