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bitwalker on March 13, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stop Using the Daylight Savings Time

UTC is intrinsically linked to leap seconds, that's why it's called Coordinated Universal Time, because it's coordinated to shifts in the solar year using leap seconds. I do think everyone using UTC + an offset would be a great switch though.

Piskvorrr on March 14, 2016 [–]

I thought that's what time zones do: "it's UTC on server, the user is in +01,add a hour to current time, format and show it to them."

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