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Do you intentionally just ignore the point made about timezone changes?

• grishka 5y ago
  Well, how do operating systems handle this sort of stuff? With updates. When it's at all possible to update. There are many devices that don't receive any updates at all any more. There are some devices that weren't designed to be updatable to begin with. It's a necessarily manual process and it creates a lot of confusion either way. And it's sufficiently rare to ignore. And these changes tend to be announced in advance.
  • detaro 5y ago
    So you'd rather push out an update every time for your app to rewrite the times it has stored to match the timezone change, instead of "just" updating the timezone database and the app automatically doing the right thing? And we've had examples in the past years of this happening with only weeks of notice, so no, it's not something that never happens.
  • arendtio 5y ago
    This argument is complete non-sense (just because a device doesn't receive software updates it doesn't mean it can't receive date/time updates). But who cares. We told you, that there are valid use-cases where timestamps are not the best solution and brought examples. If you don't want to see them, it is your loss.