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UTC is enough for everyone right? (zachholman.com)
27 points by mxschumacher on Oct 22, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


This is from May 2018 and while it's interesting the product the essay is written to support...is no longer a thing. Well at least Zac learned a lot by time, I hope it wasn't a waste of...


I once worked at an American company with an Irish branch. Some software I was working on had to display dates. I tried to get them to standardize on ISO-8601 so that I could use the same format both places. I wasn't successful, the best I could do was get them to compromise on this monstrosity: 2019-Oct-22. At least there was no confusion about which was the month and which was the day.


This is an article that everyone should take the time to read about, and the tone about it makes it really fun to read.




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