The post provides best practices for managing timestamps and time zones in databases, emphasizing the importance of using UTC for storing historical timestamps. It discusses avoiding unnecessary complexity, ensuring unambiguous time representations, using appropriate data types, understanding time zone relationships, and leveraging system-provided functions for time conversions. The guide underscores the need for careful data transformation and thorough testing to avoid errors in time-based analytics.
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1. Thou shalt default to UTC2. Thou shalt only do that which is necessary3. Thou shalt be unambiguous4. Thou shalt not cross thy Types5. Thou shalt know whence you came6. Thou shalt transform carefully7. Thou shalt understand time zone relationships8. Thou shalt trust the computer9. Thou shalt also verify the computer10. Thou shalt put this into practiceSort: