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Re:Breaking our Latin-1 assumptions (2017) by jiggawatts on Sunday June 19, 2022 @12:29AM (#31796174)
If you’re developing a database engine from scratch with no attempt at backwards compatibility with anything, then maybe you can get away with that. But there’s three decades worth of Microsoft SQL client applications that assume that GETDATE and GETUTCDATE do different things.

Microsoft just decided to pretend that globalisation is not a problem, but proceeded to market this platform to foreign enterprises as a good migration target for legacy databases and associated applications.

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