Amen to this. We've got a complete clusterfuck in our legacy code because somebody decided that UTC was not the right answer, nor was timezones quite, and so s

Amen to this. We've got a complete clusterfuck in our legacy code because somebody decided that UTC was not the right answer, nor was timezones quite, and so somehow made the heinous mistake of creating a "local UTC" and separately storing the TZ. The mind boggles. I'm still straightening that mess out. People, computers care not for your "calendar time"--usually, you want physical time and can fix the rest at the view level.