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[โ€“] Ageroth@reddthat.com 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And right now you can go look at a map of time zones. Time zones are no where near the issue that date formats are

[โ€“] taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I agree that date formats other than ISO8601 ones are bad too but time zones, particularly combined with DST, wider time zones than standard and DST going the other way on the southern hemisphere are much, much more complicated than trying to figure out date formats.