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Comment by Kwpolska

5 months ago

I’m not letting applications access my location just to let it pick a time zone.

IP geolocation is often wrong and inaccurate. I’ve had a VPS whose IP was geolocated 360 km away, in another country and time zone. But even with residential IPs, they might be pointing to a different time zone in countries with multiple zones.

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