Yes, someone actually did this and I found it running on our server

  • sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    What if I told you that weekend days are locale dependent?!

    Time and date is the black hole where optimistic programmers go to die. Nothing is simply with localisation and if you think it is, you mustn’t have worked enough with it.

    Source: Run a system that schedules millions of interactions across the world and deeply depend on this. The amount of code to manage and/or call out to external services to give us information about time zones, summer time, locale specific settings, day names, calendar systems, week numbers etc etc.