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		focom on March 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: So you want to abolish time zones (2015) Reading this you really have to be a bitter swe to suggest such a thing. Now with llm its so easy to get an agent to deal with all those issues.

digging on March 13, 2024 [–]

I don't hate time zones because I have to deal with them in software - there's libraries for that. I hate time zones because I have to deal with people, who never talk in GMT and rarely specify whose time zone they're referring to when scheduling something and don't know if they're currently in DST or not.

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