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I know this isn't any kind of surprise, and yet, well...

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

So TL;DR: there might be unexpected time zone rule changes in the future. The solution presented in the article is to store both UTC and local time, so the application can easily adjust itself if such change happens.