Ah you think UTC is your ally? You merely adopted UTC. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see DST until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!
In the 1980s, PT and ET were common. I was working at Bell Labs then, and one of my jobs was to change the time zone (back then it was two words) on the testing machines, as needed. This is stuck in my memory since to change the timezone, you needed to edit the Unix kernel source code and recompile it!
2000 for me. That was the first time I had users from outside my own time zone, so I figured it was better to just use UTC for everything and just convert depending on the user's settings. I think I just applied the thinking to the whole server.
Ah you think UTC is your ally? You merely adopted UTC. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see DST until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!
In the 1980s, PT and ET were common. I was working at Bell Labs then, and one of my jobs was to change the time zone (back then it was two words) on the testing machines, as needed. This is stuck in my memory since to change the timezone, you needed to edit the Unix kernel source code and recompile it!
2000 for me. That was the first time I had users from outside my own time zone, so I figured it was better to just use UTC for everything and just convert depending on the user's settings. I think I just applied the thinking to the whole server.
This is the way.