Is there ever a good reason to store time not in UTC?

Question

I am wondering if there are any good reasons to ever store time information in anything other that UTC (GMT)? I believe that this is a solid rule for all software engineering. T

Answer 1

In an embedded system you might well receive the time from a source in some sort of "ticks past epoch" form.

If the time is updated relatively frequently, and displayed relatively infrequently, then you might as well store it in the same way it's supplied to you and only convert it for display when needed.

In general, though, UTC is the way to go unless there are other considerations.