Comment by sholladay
Personally, I like that UTC is the default time zone. Processing of dates should happen in a standardized time zone. It’s only when you want to display it that the date should become local.
Personally, I like that UTC is the default time zone. Processing of dates should happen in a standardized time zone. It’s only when you want to display it that the date should become local.
> My birthday does not have a time zone. My deadline does.
That seems subjective
UTC is a fine default time zone, but that doesn't matter here.
A datetime with a timezone and a datetime without one are two different things, both of them useful. My birthday does not have a time zone. My deadline does.
The company deadline for getting some document returned? It might or might not, that's policy.
Poetically: we are born free of time zones. We die bound to one.