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I.e., add huge complexity to everything for no benefit to anyone.

• layer8 4y ago
  As long as you have timezones that change over time, and e.g. DST changes, you have the complexity anyway. It is all simply an expression of the fact that (a) earth’s rotation and movement around the sun isn’t a steady clockwork with subsecond precision, and (b) timezones and calendars are a subject of political decision-making. It’s therefore just not possible to easily equate coordinates of civil time with physical time, and the related facilities in software development shouldn’t project an illusion to the contrary.
  • ncmncm 4y ago
    Geographic time zones are a completely separate matter. Dragging them in just muddies the water. The topic here is worldwide standard time, literally the same for everybody, and whether a million programs obliged to make tiny adjustments to it on a random, unpredictable schedule was a good idea. Anything fiddly and unpredictable a million programs have to get right will instead be got wrong.
• thrown_22 4y ago
  This is the equivalent of complaining a foot is no longer my foot, but some kings.