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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones by laut on Sunday April 17, 2016 @11:29PM (#11517543)
Hi. I'm the author of the article. And also of Elixir Tzdata and https://github.com/lau/calendar I recommend using Calendar instead of Timex.

I'm curious: Why where you using e.g. GMT+5 or GMT-5?

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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones by majewsky on Monday April 18, 2016 @03:27AM (#11518260)
Maybe the application only allowed to configure GMT offsets, rather than timezones? I saw an internal application at work that did exactly this, and there was a predictable mess twice a year when DST started or ended.
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