jwz on Nostr: When I hear someone say "a Unix timestamp is in GMT" I die a little inside. It is ...
When I hear someone say "a Unix timestamp is in GMT" I die a little inside. It is muddy thinking that leads to many of the problems that plague this modern world.
A time_t does not have a time zone at all. It is a point in time, a scalar value. A 'struct tm' is a point in spacetime, a vector value ...
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