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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (8 children)

There is one big caveat to universal time:

Future dates: If you use utc here and a time zone definition changes, you're boned. You have to store local time and offset for just this one usecase.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you use utc here and a time zone definition changes, you’re boned

I'm pretty sure that things like the tz database exist exactly for such a case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The TZ database doesn't tell us what the offsets will be in the future. Only the past.

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