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The Time Zone King and the Database That Runs the World
This episode dives into the surprisingly tangled history of time zones and daylight saving time — from the Scottish engineer who invented 24 time zones after missing a train, to the New Zealand bug collector who inspired DST, to the volunteer-maintained TZDB database that every Linux computer on Earth depends on. We explore why UTC isn't GMT, the real controversies around daylight saving (heart attacks, car accidents, and the barbecue lobby), and whether we could just standardize on one global offset and adjust working hours instead. Episode 2450 — myweirdprompts.com/n/2450 (permanent short…
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