[drittich]

>If I were writing software like you describe I’d want an explicitly zone-agnostic date(time) to represent it.

I would love to see this as a data type (CalendarDate) baked into languages & databases which would prevent you from applying timezone conversions to it.

[reality_inspctr]

that would be the goal, but it's hard. I went down a long blog-post road about a "clockchain" which includes a way to reconcile zone-less time. tl;dr all time is relative between a minimum of two objects. all but certain there is an elegant way to do it beyond my current thinking.

https://www.seanmcdonald.xyz/p/the-clockchain-protocol-the-l...

cal.com is solving some of these problems with handling of all zones.