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Re:Python is two languages now, and that's great by shellac on Monday February 27, 2023 @11:40AM (#34958529)
Might not be the best example since Python made quite a mess of dates and date times (in fairness, like most languages), and duck typing didn't help at all.
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Re:Python is two languages now, and that's great by mharig on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @07:20AM (#34981545)
No. The people make the mess. For persistence, only UTC without timezone makes sense. For UI, with few exceptions, only local time without time zone in ISO 8601 makes sense.

The only not so easy decision is: is it better to store as Unix epoch or as ISO string. That is a trade of between compactness and easy searching of date/time ranges.

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