On 12/6/23 18:28, Greg Wooledge wrote:
Which America/New_York is incorrect from 1918 to 1966, possibly into the 1970s/80s depending upon your location in the Eastern Standard Time zone.On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 02:50:50PM -0500, Pocket wrote:Well since I am not going to set any of my systems to a time in 1920, then I believe I am save from the time machines.It's not just about your system's current time. It's about timestamps that you handle in any kind of software. If you process dates and times from the past, e.g. in a database application, and intend to display them to humans, then you'll want to use a historically accurate timezone.
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