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Or we could do metric time (files.catbox.moe)
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[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 22 points 7 months ago

Write everything in UTC, cast to local time zone for UIs

Life problems solved

[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 7 months ago

That's essentially what I did in my recent UI that I made for someone.

  • You want to insert date time
  • Select method: UTC, Time Zone, offset from GMT
  • Enter time
  • I convert it to UTC and send to backend
[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

That... still requires knowing which time zone to display. It doesn't remove the requirement at all.

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

.localtime(utctime)

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

and who implements localtime? You realize these functions call down to the system, and the system is very much ALSO written and maintained by coders...

The point is SOMEONE actually does have to implement it and maintain it.

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