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Storing Times for Human Events
I’ve worked on various event websites in the past, and one of the unintuitively difficult problems that inevitably comes up is the best way to store the time that an …
Dates and times are complicated enough that the only unambiguous way to store them is in UTC—no daylight savings or timezones to worry about, it records the exact moment since the dawn of the universe at which the event will take place. The base is a French–Italian research facility that was built 3,233 m (10,607 ft) above sea level at a location called Dome C on the Antarctic Plateau, Antarctica. I haven’t sat down to design my ideal UI for this, but I can imagine something which makes it abundantly clear to the user exactly where and when the event is taking place at that crucial local scale.
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