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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2019-03-28 12:57 pm
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Re: Dates

[personal profile] calimac 2019-03-28 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
The catch in the example given in the article is that, if you say "the conference will start at 9 AM on [future date N]," you don't know know what time, in UTC terms, 9 AM will be on that date, so there's nothing to tag it to. Handling current updates is relatively easy, assuming you've been informed of them. (I've found plenty of websites giving detailed information on the world's time zones, but none with authoritative info on who has DST and when it applies.) But predicting what wayward governments will do about time policy ... that's hard.