Jedberg on avoiding daylight savings time at reddit

I've told this story before, but it's super relevant here. When I set up all the servers for reddit, I set them all to Arizona time. Arizona does not have DST, and is only one hour off of California (where we all were) for five months, and the same as here the rest of the year.

I didn't use UTC because subtracting eight when reading raw logs is a lot harder than subtracting one.

They use UTC now, which makes sense since they have a global workforce and log reading interfaces that can automatically change timezones on display.

Jedberg on avoiding daylight savings time at reddit.