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Re:Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days by azernik on Thursday December 29, 2011 @05:22AM (#3403179)
Best practice - whatever time zone the people are using, keep the internal time stamps on a single time zone (usually UTC). Then just convert the times from and to the local zone for input and display, respectively.
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Re:Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days by masklinn on Thursday December 29, 2011 @05:31AM (#3403193)
> keep the internal time stamps on a single time zone (usually UTC)

Or UNIX time. While not monotonically increasing (it has issues with UTC leap seconds), it's pretty good.

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