> 1. If you're recording an event in the past, store it in UTC.
That works a lot less well when your analytics don't easily show that "make my coffee" is usually run in the mornings, local time.
That works a lot less well when your analytics don't easily show that "make my coffee" is usually run in the mornings, local time.
Why? As instants they are both equivalent, but one carries additional information, namely the time that was on the wall where and when the event happened.
Fixed offsets will never change, so this really is a frozen snapshot