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Re:Parquet: More than just “Turbo CSV” by drittich on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @07:15AM (#35437831)
>If I were writing software like you describe I’d want an explicitly zone-agnostic date(time) to represent it.

I would love to see this as a data type (CalendarDate) baked into languages & databases which would prevent you from applying timezone conversions to it.

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Re:Parquet: More than just “Turbo CSV” by reality_inspctr on Thursday April 06, 2023 @04:16PM (#35473766)
that would be the goal, but it's hard. I went down a long blog-post road about a "clockchain" which includes a way to reconcile zone-less time. tl;dr all time is relative between a minimum of two objects. all but certain there is an elegant way to do it beyond my current thinking.

https://www.seanmcdonald.xyz/p/the-clockchain-protocol-the-l...

cal.com is solving some of these problems with handling of all zones.

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