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Re:Timezone Bullshit by lolc on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:43PM (#26095832)
Interesting to see fixed and floating time differentiated. I didn't really have a name for that last concept.

And fixed time I would call local time. Why call it fixed? Because it's tied to a location?

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Re:Timezone Bullshit by kstenerud on Thursday February 11, 2021 @02:19AM (#26099094)
I avoided "local" because the name could technically be claimed by both types: "It's called -local- because it's local to a particular zone" vs "It's called -local- because it's local to my current (local) zone."

So I went with floating vs fixed because it feels less prone to ambiguity. "Fixed" is fixed to a particular zone, and "floating" floats along with me as my current zone changes.

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