Am Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 08:11:50PM +1200 schrieb Tim Uckun: > A korean user will fetch you single page app as static HTML from S3 > with cloudfront. It will hit your japanese API server, which will > fetch the data from your japanese read only replica with the master > being in Australia. > > The master DB writes the records has to know your end user is in > Korea somehow so you have to carry that time zone all the way across > those tiers. One does not: as soon as the real-world concept of point-in-time hits the machine it gets converted to UTC. When it leaves the machine (towards user consumption) it gets converted to whatever is desired. UTC = UTF8 Karsten -- GPG 40BE 5B0E C98E 1713 AFA6 5BC0 3BEA AC80 7D4F C89B