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 - government removes daylight savings - clock starts showing wrong time on an old Android device - user fixes by adjusting system time manually - now they have incorrect system time on their device (compensated by local tzdb error) - you build mastodon client that shows relative times – i.e. 'posted 5 min ago' - post time comes from server and is 'correct' - how to render this relative time on such devices with 'incorrect' system time? 7 comments
@nikitonsky to show relative time like that you need to compare local and remote times – that would not work when local time is way off  @nikitonsky your `System.currentTimeMillis` is off by 1hr. You have `post.timestamp` which is correct. How do you render label like 'posted 5 min ago' properly? @odnoletkov No, System.currentTimeMillis is never off by an hour, regardless of timezone. In fact, it doesn’t even change when you change time zones |
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@odnoletkov well it’s still going to be correct, it doesn’t really matter what tz user uses