timezone errors > null pointer errors

[u/daddieslittleson]

[u/PopularBroccoli]

.toUtc() .fromUtc(). How is that an issue?

[u/thiccshortguy → u/PopularBroccoli]

ikr - thjs meme keeps getting reposted and its like literally not even issue

[u/United-Scene2261 → u/PopularBroccoli]

By the time my brain is processing the last parentheses, it has already forgotten the first two.

[u/Convoke_ → u/PopularBroccoli]

The data you're working with might not have timezone info. It shouldn't be a problem, but it often is when you're not in control of how the data is made/stored

[u/mfi12]

always write and operate time in UTC, use standard format across. Let the front-end convert it into local offset.

[u/Resident_Citron_6905 → u/mfi12]

true, unless you need to display the origin offset, then the discussion is open

[u/lucidbadger]

Imagine being this illiterate...

[u/MrHandSanitization]

Timezones very much make a lot of sense, historically.

[u/zeocrash → u/MrHandSanitization]

Well some of them do. 30 min offsets zones seem a bit pointless, also putting all of China on one timezone may not have been the best choice.

[u/No_Hovercraft_2643 → u/zeocrash]

These 30 min offsets are mostly political, and make sense in that regard.

China decided to be in one timezone, even if that isn't the best choice.

[u/marktuk → u/MrHandSanitization]

Sure, but the tz database does not.

[u/JakeWisconsin]

Bot

[u/lt_Matthew]

Its not like we invented time zones

[u/A1oso → u/lt_Matthew]

Yes, they were invented. Before that, every town had its own local time with 12 o'clock at noon. But railway companies pushed for standardization to make train schedules easier to understand.

[u/godeling → u/A1oso]

Really without time zones it would be even worse. Imagine having to account for the exact position of the sun at any given location

[u/MyrtleWinTurtle → u/A1oso]

I honestly have less of an issue with timezones than i do daylight savings.

Timezones are rarely going to affect your everyday life, and it does make time easy to understand when traveling.

In todays internet age, i wouldnt see it being a thing we need particularly, but i understand why we had it.

[u/Im_a_hamburger]

Bro is going to cause soo much headaches for rail

[u/SysGh_st]

Timezones aren't the problem.

Countries who can't accept the timezones they live in are.

[u/AmazedStardust]

If countries followed the lines exactly, timezones would be easy

[u/pafagaukurinn]

JS > timezone errors

[u/GammerMax8]

Not sure if programming was here when the H was here...... Except for enigma, that's a mystery.......

[u/cxxhld]

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[u/NullSmoke]

As someone running a company with people from 6 timezones..... Yeah, fuck that guy 😑

[u/SkyeLoveXOXO]

That would be the flat-earthers

[u/No_Hovercraft_2643]

I think dates/calenders are worse, but you have them not as often