[gmueckl]

Let's not forget events spanning time zones. Just some random thing that came to my mind: how would you handle calendar entries where half the participants made a DST transition since the entry was created and the other half didn't? This happens for example when half of the team is in the US and the other half in the EU. The transition dates are a week apart.

[perl4ever]

I remember seeing a thick dead tree type of book with the history of time zones in the US, for figuring out times in historical documents when things were less standardized. It was practically the size of a phone book; I think it probably covered county level history or something like that.

[macintux]

I have a book covering, among other things, Indiana time zones for a few years during IIRC the 1960s.

It’s frankly amazing how much they changed every year. Different counties, and sometimes towns/cities within counties, would jump back and forth year to year. It would have been awful to manage if computers had been more important at that time.

[Misdicorl]

None of these edge cases are solved by using off the shelf libraries instead of running your own.

[gmueckl]

None of these edge cases have a chance of being handled correctly without an accurate time zone database to detect the problem at all. Good luck maintaining that on the side! I am fairly certain that you would get it wrong. There's a reason why most software relies on zoneinfo.