On: Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe

The annoying thing is that everyone thinks they're big enough to force their own TZ.

Southwest airlines does it.

Rackspace used to do it, to the point of needing to ask them pretty please stop provisioning hardware on central time. Obnoxious.

I'm impressed that Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange (presumably US-based) uses UTC for things like resetting daily vote limits.