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> I believe the problem comes from a conceptual mismatch of what a timezone object should be. There seem to be two commonly understood meanings of timezone whi
by buckminster 7y ago
> I believe the problem comes from a conceptual mismatch of what a timezone object should be.
There seem to be two commonly understood meanings of timezone which are confused in UIs and APIs: a geographical area which follows a particular winter and summertime regime over the year; and a particular offset from UTC like GMT or BST. I've seen a lot of bad design rooted in this confusion.