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I agree that systems should record times in UTC. But I'm talking about a more nuanced edge case: parsing user-entered date strings. If a user says "4pm Los An
by mikelward 8y ago
I agree that systems should record times in UTC. But I'm talking about a more nuanced edge case: parsing user-entered date strings. If a user says "4pm Los Angeles", it could be ambiguous, and recording the offset is the only way to reliably disambiguate. See my reply above.