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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[–] 6 points 6 days ago

I've heard some companies where time is critical make extra certain by closing for any writes during the time change.

Most places it is sufficient to stick to UTC.

An online storefront for refilling cafeteria cards I know of are so careful they close every night...

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