perishthethought@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 年前I think my code will be OK...i.imgflip.comimagemessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1339arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1332arrow-down1imageI think my code will be OK...i.imgflip.comperishthethought@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 年前message-square52fedilinkfile-text
minus-square48954246@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 年前It depends on the application. I don’t remember all the specifics but this is the blog post I refer to when this topic comes up https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a-silver-bullet/
minus-squaremagic_lobster_party@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 年前So TL;DR: there might be unexpected time zone rule changes in the future. The solution presented in the article is to store both UTC and local time, so the application can easily adjust itself if such change happens.
It depends on the application.
I don’t remember all the specifics but this is the blog post I refer to when this topic comes up
https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a-silver-bullet/
So TL;DR: there might be unexpected time zone rule changes in the future. The solution presented in the article is to store both UTC and local time, so the application can easily adjust itself if such change happens.