This is exactly wrong I think: If the timezone changes under my feet the unix timestamp might suddenly not refer to my birtday anymore. Watching people strugg

This is exactly wrong I think: If the timezone changes under my feet the unix timestamp might suddenly not refer to my birtday anymore. Watching people struggle with this is frustrating. Also I currently work with frontend and while it is no surprise that JavaScript has messed this up badly [0] it surprised me when I realised that a certain large UI framework had a) messed it up b) didn't realize it and tried to close it down when people tried to help. [0]: they copied Javas first broken Date handling and suddenly they were stuck with it IIRC. Edit: heh, double-ninjaed