Daylight savings and time zone shenanigans are among the most pointless and frustrating intrusions of government fiat into software. Even if you mitigate the complications by converting internal representation to vanilla UTC and epoch time, you still have to deal with the fact that many clients are a complete mess when it comes to correctly communicating the intended time.
The cost of dealing with this greatly exceeds whatever marginal value is hypothetically being realized by adjusting the clock every several months. If there was a global standard for how this is handled it would be one thing but in practice the adjustment of clocks is arbitrary and somewhat random by country. It is a waste of resources.
The cost of dealing with this greatly exceeds whatever marginal value is hypothetically being realized by adjusting the clock every several months. If there was a global standard for how this is handled it would be one thing but in practice the adjustment of clocks is arbitrary and somewhat random by country. It is a waste of resources.