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Daylight saving creator left the chat.... (lemmy.world)
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[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago

Any UTC type is going to do native time and convert for display.

But with native time directly, you can just an int64 with loads of space for fine resolution via multiplication.

Storing time broken up into separate units is crazy.