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Implementing RFC 3339 shouldn't really be that hard... (lemmy.world)
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Further reading: RFC 3339 / ISO 8601

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[-] akincisor@sh.itjust.works 23 points 4 months ago

There is one big caveat to universal time:

Future dates: If you use utc here and a time zone definition changes, you're boned. You have to store local time and offset for just this one usecase.

[-] carrylex@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] booly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

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

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