On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 3:23 PM Joris Peeters <joris.mg.peet...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> You could store epoch offsets, but interpret them in the local timezone.
> E.g. (0, "America/New_York") could mean 1970-01-01 00:00:00 in the New York
> timezone.
> At least one nasty problem with that is ambiguous times, i.e. when the
> clock turns back on going from DST to ST, as well as invalid times (when
> the clock moves forwards, meaning some epoch offsets never occur).
>

Another problem is calendars change (see Adam's points) so the offset would
not be constant.

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