I've gotten in the habit of giving times in UTC explicitly when talking to people in other timezones. Even if I give a time in another specific timezone. (All of my computers get a world clock with a few locations and UTC)
A friend of mine works in a company with employees all over the world for 24hr coverage with handoff meetings where shifts overlap, seeing them do it for call times sold me on the idea.
It's still possible for the world to adopt something like Swatch Internet Time for coordinating across timezones/"without" timezones. Possible, but probably unlikely.
Standard time in Ireland is UTC+1 (IST: Irish standard time). We have daylight saving time in the winter (now) where we subtract an hour and align with UTC+0. Only country in the world to do this, for historical reasons.
You can read about the reasoning/history in the information section of the tzdata database, or on wikipedia.
your right it's not a problem. This has been implemented since v1 and I haven't really been focused to much this. Trying to decide if I should remove this step for future versions. It's a clear optimization but Im thinking it should at least be backwards compatible with old versions.
It's not really a latency saver but it definitely reduces load on the network.
I had expected this to be about their multi-user editing and chat features.
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