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Re:I've been a software engineer for 10 years and I can't do... by xiphias on Monday March 06, 2017 @02:02PM (#13805098)
Actually this isn't a totally trivial question.

The time zones in calendar appointments can change, if there's a switch between standard time and summer time.

You need to know when is the hour set back by 1 hour, and in that case sometimes the answer is ,,maybe''.

I was working at a small phone company, and handling the switch between time zones were not just non-trivial, but they caused hard-to find bugs, as these things happen only twice a year.

Re:I've been a software engineer for 10 years and I can't do... by jamie_ca on Monday March 06, 2017 @03:01PM (#13805565)
Which is great, because you can pivot and expand on the question.

Once they've got the comparison out of the way, you can bring up those issues and see where they grow their implementation.