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Time Zones You're On Sight
Backend Programming Debugging Javascript
2 months ago 44.1M views 1 shares
Time Zones You're On Sight
Every developer who's dealt with datetime bugs knows the answer immediately: find whoever invented timezones and have a very stern conversation. Daylight saving time? Half-hour offsets? UTC vs local time? The International Date Line doing whatever it wants? The rage is real. You think you've got it figured out with ISO 8601 and moment.js (RIP), then some user in Arizona (which doesn't observe DST except on the Navajo Nation which does) files a bug report and you're back to questioning your entire career. Honestly, the only correct way to handle time is to store everything in UTC and let someone else deal with the display logic. But do we? No. Because we're optimists who think "this time will be different."

Time Travel Priority: Eliminate Timezones
Programming Debugging Backend Databases
1 year ago 472.2K views 0 shares
Time Travel Priority: Eliminate Timezones
Time travel fantasy? Nah, just give me five minutes with the timezone creator. I'd explain how their "brilliant" idea turned into the most cursed part of software engineering. Seriously, who thought it was a good idea to create 40+ timezone standards, DST rules that change on political whims, and historical timezone data that requires regular updates? The number of production bugs caused by timezone calculations could fill a black hole. And don't get me started on leap seconds! The only thing more terrifying than a datetime bug in production is finding out your database doesn't store timezone info.