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Time zone bugs: UTC storage, DST traps, and IANA zone names
Time zone bugs plague developers who confuse UTC with GMT or store offsets instead of IANA zone names. Daylight saving time causes duplicate or missing wall-clock times, making zone-aware scheduling essential. The article recommends using UTC for storage, IANA zones for display, and libraries like Intl.DateTimeFormat or Temporal.
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Solid developer advice, but the real-world fix often requires database schema changes and legacy data migration, which the article glosses over.
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