the tz database is fascinating not just because it's a relatively small project that's used on millions of computers but also because the source files are full of notes in the comments that go back to the 1980s
@Dee also because if something is done wrong in this obscure project, basically every computer everywhere in the world breaks
@joepie91 national legislatures think they control what time offset their territories are in, but in reality it's the tz database that does that
