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One of the hardest programs you could ever have to write would be historical times taking into account all the time zone and Daylight Savings Time changes over
by suzzer99 4y ago
One of the hardest programs you could ever have to write would be historical times taking into account all the time zone and Daylight Savings Time changes over the years. It might be impossible. Just look at Indiana's history with time zones and DST.
- ccooffee 4y agoMany years ago, a user filed a bug report that the timezone information we used for historical places in Indiana was incorrect. I don't remember exactly what the user was doing, but I think it had something to do with train schedules or something. I did not fix that bug. (But I did learn that the 'TZ' database has this information, though I think 'America/Indiana/*' had been pruned out of the copy our JVM was using.)
- IncRnd 4y agoSome of Indiana is on the Central Timezone and some is on the Eastern Timezone. This is definitely an issue!