Cloud Standard Time (CST)

For years we’ve built applications that assume the system is only used from a single location. As a result most applications work with local time, with the local time set to the time zone the application lives in. So an application of one of our Dutch customers would run in UTC/GMT +1, whereas the reservation site of a Las Vegas hotel would run in Pacific Standard Time (UTC/GMT-8) or Pacific Daylight Time (UTC/GMT-7) depending on the time of the season. You could think that there is no problem, after all the systems work as they are supposed to. There are however at least two problems. [...]

 

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Cloud Standard Time (CST).