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Apps shouldnt use anything but UCT for their timekeeping, there is no reason to do anything in the timezone's time. Setting the timezone should have no such ef

• kodah 4y ago
  You and I can agree on that in principle but there's a lot of reasons an application may read from system time. If the application reads the wrong system time source, then they get unexpected time travel. Even things like the RTC can experience time travel under certain conditions. My point was, using anything other than UTC is just unnecessary complexity and often enough ends in complicated problems.
• lstamour 4y ago
  If your app interacts with humans or machines in other time zones, tracking in a different time zone can be necessary. Though often people don’t want to specify time zones with their complexities but instead specify times at locations. But I agree, generally your service doesn’t need time zones. The exception is necessary though when time zones get ambiguous or change (e.g. daylight savings going away)