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Thanks for the update! No need to apologize! That dropping Lemmy proposal is sounding better. ๐
(not to defend lemmy more generally, but timestamps and databases are god's punishment for the hubris of software devs)
The relevant xkcd are:
And some fun reading: https://github.com/eggert/tz which combines all the things that you love:
My favorite part of North America file is about the California energy crisis
My favorite part of the Africa file is some emacs lisp for Morocco's Ramadan daylight savings (though Morocco has a rich history in the file as the descriptions start at line 595 and go through 877).