One of the more interesting bugs I've created is in an Elixir program using the (great) Timex[0] library. I realised that for a few particular users, timezones

One of the more interesting bugs I've created is in an Elixir program using the (great) Timex[0] library. I realised that for a few particular users, timezones were being inverted when converted (e.g. a user in GMT+5 would behave as if they were in GMT-5 and vice versa). After a lot of time spent proving to myself I was not actually going mad, I opened a Github issue and the library author informed me about one of the stranger quirks of timezones - the Etc/UTC-X timezones[1], which represent areas that don't have an assigned area (usually a continent, like Europe/Berlin). "The special area of "Etc" is used for some administrative zones, particularly for "Etc/UTC" which represents Coordinated Universal Time. In order to conform with the POSIX style, those zone names beginning with "Etc/GMT" have their sign reversed from the standard ISO 8601 convention. In the "Etc" area, zones west of GMT have a positive sign and those east have a negative sign in their name (e.g "Etc/GMT-14" is 14 hours ahead/east of GMT.)" [0] https://github.com/bitwalker/timex https://github.com/bitwalker/timex [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#Area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#Area