Worth repeating: If you don't build full timezone support into ... • Aaron Parecki

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Worth repeating: If you don't build full timezone support into your system from the beginning, you will regret it later.

Portland, Oregon, USA

Sun, Dec 14, 2014 12:46pm -08:00 #timezones

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Have you written a response to this? Let me know the URL:
- Justin C. Houk facebook.com/1466886812
  
  I tend to us gmt for the data and then add support as I go for time zones in other database and code locations.
  
  Mon, Dec 15, 2014 5:54pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Scott Jenson www.jenson.org
  
  @aaronpk I'm guessing there's a few more things we could add to make that a proper list
  
  Sun, Dec 14, 2014 10:06pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Mike Richmond facebook.com/511531803
  
  And 64 bit data fields and support for the 22nd century. Why not be optimistic?
  
  Sun, Dec 14, 2014 9:40pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Torgie Madison twitter.com/torgie
  
  @aaronpk My current paradigm: UTC everywhere until you absolutely must render a date/time to the user. Then convert. Strictly presentation.
  
  Sun, Dec 14, 2014 9:34pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Ryan Barrett facebook.com/212038
  
  yup. data migration and cleanup are the worstest.
  
  Sun, Dec 14, 2014 9:33pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Ryan Barrett snarfed.org
  
  @aaronpk yup. data migration and cleanup are the worstest.
  
  Sun, Dec 14, 2014 9:33pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Ryan Barrett snarfed.org
  Worth repeating: If you don’t build full timezone support into your system from the beginning, you will regret it later. – Aaron Parecki
  Sun, Dec 14, 2014 1:33pm -08:00
- Kevin Marks kevinmarks.com
  
  @aaronpk do you mean named timezones, or numeric offsets?
  
  Sun, Dec 14, 2014 8:50pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)

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