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Hello everyone! I'm getting confused when getting `UtcOffset` from `TimeZone`. Why does the `TimeZone.offsetAt(instant: Instant)` function need to be passed an `Instant` instance? According to the documentation, `Instant` is time zone independent

The utc offset of a given TimeZone varies, think daylight savings.

<@U79JY5TL3> Could you give some examples? I've simplified this function, will this lead to some unexpected bugs?
```private val instantZero = Instant.fromEpochSeconds(0)
val TimeZone.utcOffset get() = offsetAt(instantZero)

tz.offsetAt(anyInstant)
tz.utcOffset```

See <https://kotlinlang.org/api/kotlinx-datetime/kotlinx-datetime/kotlinx.datetime/-utc-offset/|https://kotlinlang.org/api/kotlinx-datetime/kotlinx-datetime/kotlinx.datetime/-utc-offset/>

TimeZone and UtcOffset are 2 different things

What you're getting is the UtcOffset on Jan 1st 1970 but if you're in Paris, the UtcOffset changes in spring for daylight savings for an example

<@U79JY5TL3> I understand, thanks! :heart: