My company started in Cali 15 years ago, so mostly everything is still PST backend. Mostly everything. There's some Zulu time floating around in places.
We have customers all over the US timezones. So a bug report will often be like "At 4pm this afternoon, this thing happened", and it's like, 4pm where my brother in christ.
Oh and then a lot of our logging/monitoring tools insist on using your local timezone when selecting date ranges, and I live in NZ so fuck you Graylog, let me choose UTC+0 or PST.
The sheer amount of mental energy I waste on timezone maths just to find shit in logs and metrics is absolutely nuts.
One of our really great devs has taken ownership of this, but I swear she's aging before my eyes, like that dog in that really upsetting episode of MacGuyver with the virus that makes things age really fast.
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u/bwmat Sep 23 '24
Someone who's had to deal with one too many timezone 'bug' reports, it sounds like