27th November 2024 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 event is happening. Based on that past experience, here’s my current recommendation. This is the expanded version of a comment I posted on lobste.rs a few days ago, which ended up attracting a bunch of attention on Twitter. The problem The “best practice” that isn’t Things that can go wrong User error Internationa...