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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones by themartorana on Sunday April 17, 2016 @08:27PM (#11517013)
I couldn't agree more - to boot, DST going away solves like half of the edge cases with one quick fix.
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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones by justinator on Monday April 18, 2016 @12:23AM (#11517717)
Except that removing DST won't, if you ever need to calculate a time/date for any time before its (future, hypothetical) removable. That could actually create more bugs.
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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones by Piskvorrr on Monday April 18, 2016 @04:26AM (#11518439)
Probably won't, historical DST switches (and TZ offsets) are already one of the edge cases a TZ library needs to deal with (I'm looking at you, Argentina!).
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