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Thanks, much appreciated.

At least for me, writing an article like that takes time and lots of thought (plus forces you to grok the stuff deeply). I wish I could write more often (or at least, carve out the time and energy for it), haven’t written much since.

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And thank you so much for the chart[0] mapping absolute to wall time. I always have a hard time visualizing DST changes ( usually I am mentally "sliding" bars of time against each other and get confused), but that one just gave me a click.

[0] https://phili.pe/posts/timestamps-and-time-zones-in-postgres...

It reads like a senior dev helping a junior where the senior dev understands the crap he or she went through to get to where they are so they break things down and use things like repetition until something sticks to help the junior dev grok it until there’s an aha moment. Keep it up!

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