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Scheduling on a calendar (occur on date X, time Y, in zone Z) and scheduling based on timedelta from instant time (occur exactly X milliseconds before or after instant Y) are both valid, and you can do timedelta scheduling in UTC without needing timezones. The issues come from conflating the two; using timedelta reasoning for calendar scheduling, or using calendar scheduling when you want an exact timedelta.



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