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by angersock 4334 days ago
Amen to this.

We've got a complete clusterfuck in our legacy code because somebody decided that UTC was not the right answer, nor was timezones quite, and so somehow made the heinous mistake of creating a "local UTC" and separately storing the TZ. The mind boggles.

I'm still straightening that mess out.

People, computers care not for your "calendar time"--usually, you want physical time and can fix the rest at the view level.