Dishwashers don't fill up - they just have a well at the bottom (below the height of the door) and they spray water over the dishes to rinse of the dirt.
Washing machines need to fill up and soak the clothes so that they get everywhere, not just the outer layer.
Yes. Not intentionally of course. But yes.
I don't see how your way is any more predictable or consistent than using UTC. What even is "local time"? Are you assuming they haven't changed timezone since they created the data? Say....DST happened, or they drove over a border...?
Storing and manipulating in UTC is the most predictable and consistent because it is universal and unchanging. You only need to worry about "local time" at the point of displaying it.
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You got me.
It took me until your comment to realise I had skimmed over the word "half" in the OP. Now this whole thing makes sense.
A person of culture I see. Thank you kind person.
You know you're pronouncing egg wrong when you have to spell it some other way.
That's a sad statement to make about a few hundred million voters.
But....it also perfectly aligns with their history.
Last time they de-throned a fascist who threatened global peace and stability it required the ill-judged intervention of a 3rd party...who ironically thought crippling the US Pacific Fleet would do the opposite.
I'd vote for a mountain over a fascist every day of the week. And twice on Sundays.
So many things would be fucked by a TZ change that it very rarely makes sense to consider it.
You're making a calendar app? Fuck it...some folks are gonna get confused...solved by simply emailing your users and telling them to reschedule shit because there's kind of a big event going on that everyone knows about and has been planning for for years. Hell in all liklihood this is probably easily solved by simply doing a mass migration of events scheduled before the TZ change.
You're coding for nuclear weapons? Maybe consider it. But probably not.
That is to say: there are ways to solve problems without resorting to writing the most complicated bullshit code ever seen. Unless of course you work on my team - in which case you'd be right at home.
Your comment is a full throated endorsement of just working in UTC up until the presentation layer. Whether you intended that or not is another question.
This sentiment is exactly what I'm talking about.
I'm not associated with the moderators anymore than your average user of .world is associated with their's.
My point is, yes I can choose to change instance but why should I? Lemmy is meant to embody the best of us - and yet some of us are creating "us and them" situations.