Discussion Thread: DIP 1042--ProtoObject--Community Review Round 1

[Adam D Ruppe]

On Thursday, 13 January 2022 at 17:57:58 UTC, bauss wrote:
> Basically what you said, as the sane thing is working with pure 
> UTC and just offsetting it by the timezone and only actually 
> accounting for timezone when you need to display the time to 
> some user.

This is a common myth.

It works ok for times in the past, but it drops important 
information for times in the future.