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Implementing RFC 3339 shouldn't really be that hard... (lemmy.world)

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Further reading: RFC 3339 / ISO 8601

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (8 children)

There is one big caveat to universal time:

Future dates: If you use utc here and a time zone definition changes, you're boned. You have to store local time and offset for just this one usecase.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Store absolute time in something like Epoch (seconds since 1970-01-01) plus local time zone

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