FediMeteo, timezones, and the art of not breaking what already works (opens in new tab)

I have already written about , and about how . Seen from the outside, FediMeteo almost seems still. There is a static homepage, regenerated every hour. There are the city pages, with their forecasts. There are RSS feeds waiting to be fetched, JSON objects waiting to be requested, Fediverse instances refreshing data, subscribing, unsubscribing, retrieving profiles, and reading notes. That is the visible part. Behind it, however, That chain, although almost invisible from the outside, was not b...