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		lxgr 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone This makes me wonder: Should NTP servers broadcast the tz database...? (And should the tz database support a stable but turing-complete scripting/bytecode language?)

ironmagma 9 months ago [–]

That sounds like the beginning of a story that ends with an RCE.

lxgr 9 months ago | [–]

Hey, if OpenType fonts get to do it, why shouldn't timezones? :)

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