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[–] carrylex 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you use utc here and a time zone definition changes, you’re boned

I'm pretty sure that things like the tz database exist exactly for such a case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

The TZ database doesn't tell us what the offsets will be in the future. Only the past.