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The most interesting timezone I ever encountered is Europe/Moscow on and around January 1, 1900. If you decide to use that date as a zero date in your code (for
by aleksi 2y ago
The most interesting timezone I ever encountered is Europe/Moscow on and around January 1, 1900. If you decide to use that date as a zero date in your code (for example, to handle the transition from two digits per year), you will be in a lot of pain: the offset was +02:30:17. Yes, with 17 seconds! Demo: https://go.dev/play/p/lq36Plr1sIL https://go.dev/play/p/lq36Plr1sIL
- iso8859-1 2y agoThe tzdb assumes Local Mean Time (LMT) was used all over. For example, the tzdb has Africa/Monrovia still using LMT in 1970. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_mean_time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_mean_time