[riperoni]

The whole article reads like a strawman argument.

From a dev's point of view, timezones in real life are okay and much more annoying in data/software because sometimes, other folks don't care about capturing timezone offsets properly or converting to UTC.

We all just long for clean UTC timestamps that can be created, parsed or passed around without concern until they are displayed and formatted according to a local timezone where ever. Abolishing day time savings would simplify this even more.

[strongpigeon]

As a best practice though, you shouldn't store offsets but rather time zone identifiers. Reason being: time zones change offsets. DST being a good example, but they also change for geopolitical reasons and more often than you'd think.