Teravus Ovares wrote: > As I said in IRC, > > I'm firmly of the mind that we should make it easy to ensure that all > time data is consistant. I think the easiest way to do this is to > standardize on UTC. Whatever time zone your server hardware/OS is in, > you can always get UTC from it. > > I am not averse to having a 'super advanced OMG what the heck are you > doing' option to set a UTC offset above and beyond.. but I really > think it should be UTC by default across the board.
+1, agreed. Time zones are way trickier than most people give them
credit for, and they get changed by legislation all the time, so
embedding time zone offsets into the system for data storage is
something I think we should clearly avoid.
-Sean
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