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bassman9000 on May 15, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time

I wouldn't be surprised if someone told me 10-15% of our bugs were because of Eng/PM misunderstanding this.

sieabahlpark on May 15, 2019 [–]

I've argued this and the issue comes when you try to Target another timezone from your own.

So for example if you're in EST(-5) and need to Target CST(+8) you can't give the Unix time for the other timezone because that value is relative to yours talking about another timezone.

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