• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 days ago

    As a programmer, I would never put anything except UTC or Unix time into a computer program or database. The front end can show the user whatever localized bullshit they want to see.

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      But if you consume data from something not in utc and need to get it there, there is still room for bugs.

      I changed our systems a previous job to store all in utc and got made to put it back to jst (Japan). That was … Fun