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		p1necone on April 4, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Parquet: An efficient, binary file format for tabl... Another case that pops up a lot is dealing with dates from third party systems that aren't timezone aware. Trying to convert them without knowing what timezone they were supposed to be in in the first place doesn't work, you have to just display them with no conversion.

eyelidlessness on April 4, 2023 [–]

Oh yeah I hesitate to even go into this because it’s been a huge source of traumatic burnout dealing with the fallout of it being mishandled.

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