Richard Quadling wrote:
As more and more site/services are being hosted in the cloud, allowing
requests to be handled locally geographically, in different timezones, does
it make ANY sense in setting a timezone at all other than UTC?

This is something I have been saying all along. The whole thing is broken anyway since you have no idea what time-zone a USER is accessing from since the browser bodge only provides a current time offset. Until a user logs into a site and provides the data of their current daylight saving 'location' anything else is a guess. If you are assuming a server is in a single time-zone, then it makes even less sense to use anything other than UTC and ignore timezones altogether?

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