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Unrelated to the topic, but I deal with a database storing timestamps.
In local time.
For systems all around the world.
You'll see current entries timestamped 12:28 from eastern Europe followed by ones 6:28 from America and then another 11:28 from central Europe.
Without offset.
Ew. Just store UTC timestamps and do optional translation on the client using whatever the client sets up for their timezone. It's not hard...
Oh believe me, I would change some things about that database if I could. Alas, I'm just the analyst building data models from it.
(To be fair, it's otherwise easy to work with and for most use-cases, it doesn't matter since they're aggregated per month anyway, so I just load the last month's data on the 2nd of each month. I definitely have worse patients to operate on.)