Earlier today, I saw on Lemmy that comments made within the last hour since DST were now in the negatives since time had rolled back. If a database uses time like this for search operations, would that interfere with them? Could it corrupt the database?

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[–] 22 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Or just Unix (epoch) time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

There can be problems with leap seconds using UTC (or leap hours eventually)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second

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