It's not always "in your current time zone" - it depends on the "kind" of the DateTime. If you use DateTime.Now you will indeed get a value which is in your current system time zone. And I think you meant either DateTime.UtcNow or DateTimeOffset.UtcTicks rather than DateTime.UtcTicks...there's no such property as DateTime.UtcTicks.

When it comes to using the system time zone, It's not about "those iron age societies" using daylight saving - it's more about DateTime basically always representing some sort of "local" date, either in your local time zone, UTC, or an unspecified time zone. That's a very broken design, but not (IMO) in the way that you claim it to be.

Likewise it's entirely reasonable IMO to ignore "the" Julian/Gregorian shift in 1752, partly as it happened in different years depending on the place(and Sweden is particularly strange in this regard). All kinds of aspects of a date/time become weird if you swtch calendar system - and the DateTime type *only* represents the Gregorian calendar system. (If you give it a different one in the constructor, it effectively translates the value into the Gregorian calendar.) Again, I view that as a broken design - but not because of "the" 1752 shift.

So yes, there are plenty of valid criticisms of .NET's date/time handling, but yours didn't quite hit the mark for me.

The support for date and time handling in .NET is deplorable too, in my view. If it weren't, I wouldn't have bothered to create the Noda Time library (http://nodatime.org) which I'd like to think does a rather better job.

Having a single type (well, two with DateTimeOffset) to represent all kinds of different concepts is simply a bad idea. See my rant about this for more details:
http://noda-time.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/what-wrong-with-datetime-anyway.html

There's an obvious potential correlation between high scores and plenty of questions being available though.

Hitting the rep cap (200) each day is relatively straightforward, which leaves only accepted answers (and bounties). If there aren't many questions in your area of expertise, you could easily end up with only 260 per day despite being incredibly savvy.

I'm lucky that my two areas of "reasonable competence" (I wouldn't quite go as far as expertise) are Java and C#, both of which have plenty of questions available. Whilst there's obviously more competition in those topics too, it's a fairly "target rich environment" so to speak.

From the summary: "in fear of being on the brink of another nuclear [sic] WAR."'

From the article: "in fear of being on the brink of another nucliar [sic] WAR".

It would help if posters didn't correct spelling for words which are followed by [sic].