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		bee_rider on Feb 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Falsehoods programmers believe about time zones (2... Localization past Unix time stamp should be handled by the OS anyway. If I somehow got myself caring about any of this, I’d be very worried that I was doing something wrong.

PaulDavisThe1st on Feb 13, 2024 [–]

When you collect a time/date entry from a user, what are your instructions to them?

LK5ZJwMwgBbHuVI on Feb 13, 2024 | [–]

<input type="datetime-local"> (plus some JS to turn it into a timestamp in UTC, since HTML is stupid)

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