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In that case it is no really a time, it is a condition.


If the “condition” is what’s important for whatever you want to achieve, then that’s the thing to store.

Moreover, most people in real life will understand that to be a time and won’t care how it maps to UTC.


Yup, it's a function that leads to a time, depending on some things. And you can't express it in UTC, so you better store the whole function (as a string, for example). QED




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