[🌐 Online] Storing UTC is not a silver bullet with Jon Skeet

UTC is not a silver bullet with Jon Skeet

❗❗ 🌐 This is an online event, we'll be hosting the event on Zoom, the link for the meeting is below, however, we'll only announce the password just before the event.

🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84943829414
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📅 Agenda

• 👋 Welcome
• 🗑️ Housekeeping
• 👨‍🏫 Storing UTC is not a silver bullet
• 🍻 Virtual Bar

👉 Storing UTC is not a silver bullet
When I read Stack Overflow questions involving time zones, there’s almost always someone giving the advice to only ever store UTC. Convert to UTC as soon as you can, and convert back to a target time zone as late as you can, for display purposes, and you’ll never have a time zone issue again, they say.
After exploring the basic concepts around DateTime, this talk will delve a bit deeper and provide a counterpoint to that advice. I’m certainly not saying storing UTC is always the wrong thing to do, but it’s not always the right thing to do either.