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by Veserv 39 days ago
No tzdata. When a time becomes the past you canonicalize it to the UTC, or better yet TAI, second it occurred at. As in, this occurred N cesium atom vibrations after the zero timestamp.

That is permanently fixed and can be losslessly and perfectly converted to the corresponding date in the past if you care about what local time was at that instant at some location.