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Time zones change multiple times a year throughout the globe. For example, the time zone database changed five times in 2020.

If your time code doesn't already depend on an externally updating time database, you're already doing it wrong.



Yeah, I know in theory that's the case (although I didn't realize how often time zones changed). I still expect there will be problems on that timeline. As for how serious they would be or how much difference an extra year would make, I don't know.


I recently change the subnet my house network runs on. 90% of my devices just switched with DHCP, but there were a couple of laggards. It was a good exercise in figuring out where I had gotten lazy with my setup.

I feel like this would be a good exercise in how we handle clocks. :)




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