alt Hacker NewsThis is the only way. To do otherwise smacks of poor programming practice and is very often a sign the coder doesn't habitually consider the world outside their own timezone.
This is the only way. To do otherwise smacks of poor programming practice and is very often a sign the coder doesn't habitually consider the world outside their own timezone.
It only works backwards (though you can probably get away with it if your future dates are not too far forward). There are ~10 tzdb updates a year due to rule changes and if you bake a date on the other side of one to UTC too early then your app is going to have incorrect datetimes