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Also to be found out there, and which would need attention, is use of 0 as a sentinel if time = 0 // handle missing data case else ... The

Also to be found out there, and which would need attention, is use of 0 as a sentinel if time = 0 // handle missing data case else ... The kind of thing that makes you wonder "what sort of a day was 1 Jan 1970, actually?"

lmm 5y ago
Developers in the UK are used to UTC being the same as the UK's winter timezone, and so it's a bit confusing that time 0 is not midnight but 1AM on 1 Jan 1970, due to the short-lived British Standard Time.
- eru 5y ago
  Do you have a link about British Standard Time? I can't really find anything about it online.
  - Piskvorrr 5y ago
    Shouldn't tzdata contain historical offsets, too?
    - eru 5y ago
      Maybe. But doesn't have any historic context.
Piskvorrr 5y ago
Well, that's just the payback for making NULL interchangeable with 0. Where map data is concerned, there's always a bunch of random objects reported to be floating in the Gulf of Guinea. (Specifically, at [0,0])