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Shenglong
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Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time
Also don't forget that different time zones convert to DST at different offsets, and some places don't observe DST altogether. Oh, and some places go backwards.
lacker
on June 19, 2012
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Not just "some places" go backwards. UTC itself can jump backwards during a leap second.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
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