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I tend to prefer: - Things happen/happened at UTC times - Things will happen at zoneless time + IANA DB label. Though there are some edges. Obviously it's pos
by Glyptodon 3y ago
I tend to prefer:
- Things happen/happened at UTC times
- Things will happen at zoneless time + IANA DB label. Though there are some edges. Obviously it's possible to pre-apply and convert to UTC, which is okay, but whether that makes sense to do in practice varies some. Future UTC time of often worthless for understanding human centric dates and times.
- Kwpolska 3y agoFor past events, knowing the local time might be useful context. I'd store local time with UTC offset, or with IANA time zone name (which might change the UTC meaning if there's some change affecting past dates in the IANA database).