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Backend

A hub for the domain that collects notes on server-side development, including API design, authentication, and databases. It covers business logic design, data persistence, and building APIs.

Datetimes and time zones — the same instant under different names

This chapter organizes datetime handling into three: instant, local time, and duration. It covers why offsets and time zones are different, how storage differs between past records and future events, that day boundaries move with time zones, that string interpretation changes by form, and pitfalls of calendar arithmetic.