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Or we could do metric time
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Write everything in UTC, cast to local time zone for UIs
Life problems solved
That's essentially what I did in my recent UI that I made for someone.
That... still requires knowing which time zone to display. It doesn't remove the requirement at all.
.localtime(utctime)
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.