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Re:European Parliament requests recommendation to end biannu... by tome on Thursday February 08, 2018 @12:07PM (#16333620)
Because then it's denormalized and it's failing to separate concerns. It's storing both the time something happened and the thing strip of longitude it was nominally deemed to have taken place in.
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Re:European Parliament requests recommendation to end biannu... by dllthomas on Thursday February 08, 2018 @01:27PM (#16334321)
A timezone is a political boundary, not "a thin strip of longitude" (unfortunately)
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