Among the best best engineering documents I’ve read, written in a tone of gibbering madness, was a Google one about how Calendar handled time zones.

It has since been taken down by the Borg and replaced with a soothing lie. https://twitter.com/swiftonsecurity/status/635644114277535744
“What happens if you have an event happening in multiple time zones and reschedule it?”

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