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by nly 1305 days ago
It's fairly unusual to have a system where people can write timestamps in arbitrary timezones. Most of the time there's a suitable context where a timezone just makes sense

For example, in a booking system the timezone will be associated with the venue or the destination.

In a scheduler for a trading system certain timestamps (start, stop time etc) will be the timezone of the trading venue.

For past events (logging) UTC essentially always makes sense.