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> Why not offset? An offset would have exactly the same issues as UTC. You need the time zone location to correct for future changes. Knowing it’s UTC+2 doesn’
by samwillis 5y ago
> Why not offset?
An offset would have exactly the same issues as UTC. You need the time zone location to correct for future changes. Knowing it’s UTC+2 doesn’t help with that.
Ultimately it comes down to intent, either relative to space time, or the socially excepted time in a particular location in the future. A time zone represented as a location/city name is the best we currently have, but even can can be wrong if the time zone boundary’s change.
- knorker 5y agoYou're right, it's down to intent. Where do you anchor your future times. Is the meeting literally two months, four days, three hours, 32 minutes, and 14 seconds from now, or is it two motnhs, four days from now, when a local clock in New York is 15:30? I was thinking international meetings where "your country changed: you move", which in retrospect is not realistic.