Is there ever a good reason to store time not in UTC?

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Published on 2009-07-14T20:21:46Z Indexed on 2010/05/29 16:32 UTC
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I am wondering if there are any good reasons to ever store time information in anything other that UTC (GMT)? I believe that this is a solid rule for all software engineering. The conversion to local time is merely a translation that happens at the UI layer for display purposes. I have also seen cases where the translatation is needed in order to implement an algorithm correctly (for handling midnight date changes, etc.).

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