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Not-ignoring daylight savings time for analysis

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No one told me having a kid meant I have to wake up for school every day too. >< Also. TIL that if I adjust the scheduled publish date in Ghost, it reset the time so this one got sent out late =\ dang it. Oh, hey, daylight savings time has just hit the US and everyone is slightly more tired than usual and all our meetings with folks in other countries have potentially jumped to a different hour depending on how we set up the meetings. And then we might do it again as other countries start adopting their version of summer time too in the coming weeks. Great fun. One of the most solid pieces of advice that we give data scientists who are new to the field is to completely avoid having to deal with daylight savings times and time zones altogether because it is impossible to make sense of shifting time regimes without a lot of madness-inducing care. Just stick to unixtime, UTC, or just about anything else that does not include a shifting time scale. Keeping things monotonic and continuous i

No one told me having a kid meant I have to wake up for school every day too. >< Also. TIL that if I adjust the scheduled publish date in Ghost, it reset the time so this one got sent out late =\ dang it. Oh, hey, daylight savings time has just hit the US and everyone is slightly more tired than usual and all our meetings with folks in other countries have potentially jumped to a different hour depending on how we set up the meetings. And then we might do it again as other countries start adopting their version of summer time too in the coming weeks. Great fun. One of the most solid pieces of

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