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I’d argue that the only time you shouldn’t use UTC is when you live in UTC. The point is mainly to ensure that your code and institutional processes handle time
by kogir 6y ago
I’d argue that the only time you shouldn’t use UTC is when you live in UTC. The point is mainly to ensure that your code and institutional processes handle time zones correctly by ensuring nothing accidentally works correctly if they don’t.
Whatever you do pick, you definitely want to avoid Daylight Savings Time because it’s not just twice a year - it’s a different twice a year depending on which years (laws enacted it, and have moved it multiple times).
- gerikson 6y agoWho lives in UTC?
- 2038AD 6y agoIceland
- gerikson 6y agoIceland is on GMT/Western European Time, which is a civil timezone that would allow the implementation of a future DST. It just happens to be +00:00 to UTC all year right now. Iceland had DST in the 1960s.
- 2038AD 6y agoEven more reason for someone there to be careful with timezones!
- gerikson 6y agoTrue. People I correspond with in the UK have the tendency to just say "1PM GMT" all year round, and I have to infer they're actually referring to "whatever the local time is in the UK at the moment", not specifically UTC+0 in summer. The UK had "Double Summer Time" during WW2, and I believe again in the 1970s. Granted that was before computers but still.