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Attaching a timezone to a time is an information in itself. By coercing time data to UTC you are losing this bit of information. A user may want to have some i
by lloeki 14y ago
Attaching a timezone to a time is an information in itself. By coercing time data to UTC you are losing this bit of information.
A user may want to have some information shown as 8AM PST at the same time he wants another one shown as 8AM CET.
- DrJokepu 14y agoA timestamp and a timestamp with time zone are two different things and you need to use the appropriate one (which is usually time zone with timestamp). However, the argument is really not about attaching timezone information to timestamp which is an unfortunate but necessary thing, but storing times in the archaic multiple-base mixed format stuff humans traditionally use (because it's human-friendly) that computers simply do not need. An ISO timestamp mixes bases 60, 24, 12, a weird mix of base 28, 29, 30 an 31, and a weird mix of 365 & 366. This is craziness.