stephen barncard wrote: > 2009/11/28 Bill Vlahos <bvlahos at mac.com> > >> How do folks deal with storing dates when the formats around the >> world vary so much? > > To ensure compatibility among platforms and countries; > use the seconds as the stored time data, then convert on the fly at > showtime. The dates and times should "just work" and formatted as > they are set by the user.
I like using the seconds and did so for many year, but recently I've had to deliver stuff for teams working across time zones, and I found that because the internet time preserves the time zone determining which time/date is earlier than another is more accurate when the data comes from different time zones.
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