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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

Life problems solved

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[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 2 years 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

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[+] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

.localtime(utctime)

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[+] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Dear God cities are removing DST! Cities! It means I need to know if you are in or out of a city to know if you need to be shown daylight or standard time!

That's why it's lucky that identifiers in the tz database are already things like America/New_York instead of "eastern time."

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[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Newfoundland has only just over 500k population and has a nice GMT-2:30 time zone. That's an extra half hour difference. Many cities are larger so I can see them wanting better time for themselves.

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[–] capital@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Ugh. Any time I need to set up a meeting for IST.