diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index aa251f7ce3c..5014052fb3c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@
     "react-dom": "19.2.6",
     "react-helmet": "6.1.0",
     "react-lazyload": "3.2.1",
+    "temporal-polyfill": "0.3.0",
     "undici": "8.3.0",
     "uuid": "13.0.1",
     "winston": "patch:winston@3.8.2#./patches/winston-file-descriptor.patch"
diff --git a/src/app/legacy/psammead/psammead-timestamp-container/src/utilities/index.js b/src/app/legacy/psammead/psammead-timestamp-container/src/utilities/index.js
index a0120c705a2..95c2cc49b5f 100644
--- a/src/app/legacy/psammead/psammead-timestamp-container/src/utilities/index.js
+++ b/src/app/legacy/psammead/psammead-timestamp-container/src/utilities/index.js
@@ -1,5 +1,28 @@
+import 'temporal-polyfill/global';
 import moment from 'moment-timezone';
 
+const createDateAdapter = () => ({
+  // Temporary seam for gradual Temporal adoption in follow-up PRs.
+  createLocalisedMoment: ({ locale, timestamp }) =>
+    moment(timestamp).locale(locale),
+  createMomentInTimezone: ({ locale, timestamp, timezone }) =>
+    moment(timestamp).locale(locale).tz(timezone),
+  formatDuration: ({ duration, format, locale }) => {
+    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);
+  },
+  // Exposed to make Temporal available at runtime without changing behavior yet.
+  toTemporalInstant: timestamp =>
+    globalThis.Temporal?.Instant?.fromEpochMilliseconds(timestamp),
+});
+
+const dateAdapter = createDateAdapter();
+
 // Note that this next section is globally configuring moment.
 // It is not possible to configure these on specific moment instances.
 // The current requirements for rounding & thresholding are the same universally
@@ -20,12 +43,11 @@ moment.relativeTimeThreshold('d', 30);
 moment.relativeTimeThreshold('M', 12);
 
 export const formatDuration = ({ duration, format, locale = 'en-gb' }) => {
-  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);
+  return dateAdapter.formatDuration({
+    duration,
+    format,
+    locale,
+  });
 };
 
 // if the date is invalid return false - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1353684/detecting-an-invalid-date-date-instance-in-javascript#answer-1353711
@@ -39,7 +61,10 @@ export const isValidDateTime = dateTime => {
 
 // when using the following 2 functions, we recommend using webpack configuration to only load in the relevant timezone, rather than all of moment-timezone
 export const localisedMoment = ({ locale, timestamp }) => {
-  return moment(timestamp).locale(locale);
+  return dateAdapter.createLocalisedMoment({
+    locale,
+    timestamp,
+  });
 };
 
 export const formatUnixTimestamp = ({
@@ -51,7 +76,11 @@ export const formatUnixTimestamp = ({
 }) => {
   if (!timestamp) return undefined;
 
-  const momentObj = moment(timestamp).locale(locale).tz(timezone);
+  const momentObj = dateAdapter.createMomentInTimezone({
+    locale,
+    timestamp,
+    timezone,
+  });
 
   if (isRelative) {
     return momentObj.fromNow();
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 39610cba7c4..cc5bf54b616 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -15866,6 +15866,7 @@ __metadata:
     retry: "npm:0.13.1"
     storybook: "npm:10.3.6"
     supertest: "npm:7.2.2"
+    temporal-polyfill: "npm:0.3.0"
     timemachine: "npm:0.3.2"
     ts-jest: "npm:29.4.9"
     typescript: "npm:5.9.3"