Re: Holding "datetimes" in a DB.

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On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Richard Quadling <rquadling@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi.
>
> My heads trying to remember something I may or may not have known to start
> with.
>
> If I hold datetimes in a DB in UTC and can represent a date to a user
> based upon a user preference Timezone (not an offset, but a real
> timezone : Europe/Berlin, etc.) am I missing anything?
>
> Richard.
>

I would only use this if you're planning to have servers all around the
world in different timezones, then it would be easier to interchange data.
Otherwise, stick with ur local timezone and it will save you a lot of
unneeded timezone conversions probably.

- Matijn

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