Why "Store Everything in UTC" is Bad Advice

Ondra Spilka

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4 Aug 2021CPOL7 min read

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Let's explain the basics so developers understand weak spots of date and time handling

Handling dates and times is not an easy part of the software development and in many cases, we see implementations working only in limited scope of scenarios, usually failing later with data malformed in a way that is hard to fix.

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Why "Store Everything in UTC" is Bad Advice

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