[globular-toast]

Any developer who thinks dates, times, UTC offsets and locales/cultures is "easy" is grossly incompetent (unless, of course, they've never worked with human-facing software before, in which case their naiveté can be forgiven).

[quickthrower2]

“Human facing”? Any software worth it’s salt needs to deal with this stuff. Unless it’s a toy program. I quite enjoy Timezone stuff, perversely. Might be Stockholm?

[globular-toast]

If you're writing firmware for an embedded device without a clock then you'll never have to deal with this. If your software only ever has to interact with other software then you wouldn't ever use time zones unless you really have to. Only humans demand time zones.

[teruakohatu]

I think you underestimate newbie developers. The nightmare that is dates and times is something that you learn from experience, not at university.

[globular-toast]

Yes, I should say "experienced developer".