Dealing with time zone conversions (C++ / Boost)

Recently I was tasked with writing some code to convert between arbitrary time zones. I did some research and there are a few good libraries out there for C++ that make this task easy. I decided out implementation would use boost. We already use boost to handle various other things within our code base and some of the other solutions I found would require introducing some new dependencies I wasn’t comfortable with for this particular project.

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