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tadfisher on Aug 10, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why You Should Use Timezone Offsets Not Timezone N...

TZDATA ships with historical timezone information, so using the timezone name should also work for past events, no?

achamayou on Aug 10, 2015 [–]

It does, there is no reason to translate to fixed offsets for past events.

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