agreed. Additionally it may reduce the power of fringe groups from pressuring private companies who are doing legal business. The recent Steam and itch.io takedowns due to collective shout come to mind.
These days, there are some engines with (oil immersed) belts, but that's for fuel efficiency, not longevity. Chains last longer, typically, although I used to have a 97 Honda VFR that had neither. They started with chains in earlier models but had reliability issues so switched to straight cut gears. Man I miss the way those things sounded -- like a supercharger whine. Amazing
This is a great and important topic, one that I’ve bumped into against in past code. I think I understand the basics of time/zones/storage.
However, on one codebase I worked on in the past, dates were stored in mysql in a datetime field, with the time set to 00:00:00, iirc.
I’m hoping someone knowledgeable about this topic could comment on this. I never could discover why it was done that way. It wrong? Is it right? Based on the other threads here, it seems wrong, but maybe there’s a non-obvious reason to do it this way?