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There's no time zones involved in that at all. Nobody is going to be checking the opening hours of a Home Depot in another timezone and expect to get the date in their local timezone.


> Nobody is going to be checking the opening hours of a Home Depot in another timezone and expect to get the date in their local timezone.

You've never wanted to call a business in another timezone before making the trip out there?


I've never visited a brick and mortar store's website to check their opening hours and assumed it would be anything other than in their local timezone.


...I can see this use case.

However, if I look up the opening time of a Home Depot in another time zone, I expect the result to be in that store's local time! I'll do the conversion myself. If I get my local time instead, I'll still perform the conversion, and get the wrong result.

You could just decide that any time listed anywhere on the internet should include a timezone... but that would be nuts.




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