Git as a NoSql Database (2016)

Re:Git as a NoSql Database (2016) by chillfox on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @01:03AM (#26708098)

UTC offset is way more useful than those 3-4 character timezone abbreviations.

Just have a look at the list from Wikipedia [1] and notice how many repeats there are.

As an example AMT could be either UTC+4 or UTC-4.

And this doesn't even includes the various local acronyms that people use around the world.

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Re:Git as a NoSql Database (2016) by hobs on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @10:46AM (#26712426)

I didn't downvote you, but just for reference the time zone abbreviations you are supposed to use are in the tzdata db, and are listed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

If you don't use these, you will inevitably be somewhat wrong due to leap issues, political changes in time, or the like.

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Re:Git as a NoSql Database (2016) by hashhar on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @02:53AM (#26708837)

Political zones are not the same thing as the abbreviated zones.

IANA time zone identifiers are fully-qualified and unambiguous like America/Los_Angeles or Asia/Kolkata.

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Re:Git as a NoSql Database (2016) by chillfox on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @04:19AM (#26709396)

Thanks, I have never heard the term “political zones” before, so I made an assumption.

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