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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

True but so do most computers. Computers have a database of timezones and time offsets around the world. Depending on the UTC date and time, and your current timezone it will look up what offset to apply to show the local time. The database is very gnarly since rules change over time, e.g. maybe in the 70s some countries had longer DST to counteract oil shortages.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

And there was much rejoicing (not)