How to save datetimes for future events

Re:How to save datetimes for future events by angersock on Monday March 23, 2015 @05:30PM (#9253457)

No no no--you will add a lot of hairball code if you persist in not UTC.

For the virtual meeting, you just localize the time as they query it--this will make your life vastly simpler when, for example, querying over an interval or what have you.

UTC is the right answer.

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Re:How to save datetimes for future events by mark-r on Monday March 23, 2015 @07:04PM (#9253896)

Did you read the article? A specific case was presented where persisting in UTC simply won't work.

I still believe that UTC is useful as an intermediary, and persisting in UTC can work if all your times are in the past and all your conversions are done with an up-to-date rule list.

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Re:How to save datetimes for future events by angersock on Monday March 23, 2015 @11:51PM (#9254804)

Yeah, read the article. Considering new house rule of UTC for present and past, wall time (?) for future.

Person I was responding to gave bad reasoning ("Pick the timezone that matters most") instead of echoing what the article said.

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