No, you're not missing anything.
Anyone programming outside of the USA is well aware of localisation and how to use it.
Anyone programming outside of the USA is well aware of localisation and how to use it.
Now living in Germany, they even translate timezone names. Not only do you have to look in a timezone database to figure out what a MESZ is, when the timezone database says "there is no such timezone" you have to realize you need to look in a German translation of it. Very approachable for the international people that need to know which timezone that German picked for the meeting invite
Which is all to say: sure, people know other countries exist and are more likely to need to learn to use localization, but by default it's not like everyone knows how to do that