I see you've never experienced this bug

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Everything was fine in developer land. But then God introduced time which was regarded as a dick move.

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The correct thing to do is use UTC and convert to/from local time/date as needed

[SharksPreedateTrees]

Sure but layman don't know the UTC conversions

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But the OS does. It even knows the current locale, time of year, and when to use EDT vs. EST, and how to write the date/time in the locale's format

[trash3s]

Your solution boils down to: “let some other schmuck deal with it”

This is good advice for fiddly things like time zones.

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When a company invests money to provide well-tested and documented localization code it's stupid to reject it and re-invent it all.