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There is one big caveat to universal time:
Future dates: If you use utc here and a time zone definition changes, you're boned. You have to store local time and offset for just this one usecase.
I'm pretty sure that things like the tz database exist exactly for such a case.
The TZ database doesn't tell us what the offsets will be in the future. Only the past.