The problem with time and timezones | Tom Scott

And at that point, generally the programmer will start to hold their head in their hands and realise what they've got themselves into...

A wonderful recap of why you should just never try to support timezones in any program ever. And that's before you even get into calendar fallacies 😭

(Also, I love that my birthday used to be the British New Year in the middle ages 👍)

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