Astrology

Posted Oct 1, 2021 11:21 UTC (Fri) by tonyfinn (guest, #144891)
In reply to: Astrology by Homer512
Parent article: A fork for the time-zone database?

> Let's hope whoever built the database didn't follow best-practices and just keep all dates in local time without specifying time zones. Now the worst that could happen is that my retirement kicks in a day late or so.

Or you get refused for important documents, background checks, or whatever because you provided the "wrong" date of birth?

Astrology

Posted Oct 2, 2021 11:01 UTC (Sat) by Homer512 (subscriber, #85295) [Link]

Store the date without time-zone info and it will always fit my on-paper documents which obviously were written in local time. I'd say this is the safer option for background checks. It just means that my age may drift by an hour or so because no one compensates for changes in local time-zones. Of course this could also cause issues.