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Daylight saving creator left the chat.... (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by devilish666 to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The only code with timezones should be the bit squishy meat bags touch. Everything's is should be UNIX time. Or it you are unfortunate enough to be on Windows, NT time.

Some unfortunate programmers already have to deal with the speed of time not being a constant. In a distant future, timestamps might always have a universal position (and speed), and is that much different from timezones?

Or we find some way of removing time distortion of physics. Find the universe's real systick. 😃

[–] Zannsolo 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No UTC. Convert/use UTC on the way in and covert to local time for the user or local time of the noun the date is for in the display.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Any UTC type is going to do native time and convert for display.

But with native time directly, you can just an int64 with loads of space for fine resolution via multiplication.

Storing time broken up into separate units is crazy.