Show threadरञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Oct 31, 2024

And the Olson #TZDB is a marvelous effort to overcome this complexity:

“A Literary Appreciation Of The Olson/Zoneinfo/Tz Database” [2009], John Udell (https://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/23/a-literary-appreciation-of-the-olsonzoneinfotz-database/).

#TimeZones #Programming #ZoneInfo #TzInfo #Time #UTC #DST

A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database

You will probably never need to know about the Olson database, also known as the Zoneinfo or tz database. And were it not for my elmcity project I never would have looked into it. I knew roughly th…

Jon Udell
रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Oct 31, 2024

#TimeZones are some of the weirdest things you encounter in #programming:

“Australia/Lord_Howe Is the Weirdest Timezone”, Ulysse Carion (https://ssoready.com/blog/engineering/truths-programmers-timezones/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41992314

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/ktjpvq/australia_lord_howe_is_weirdest_timezone

#UTC #TZ #DST #Time #TzInfo #TZDB

Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone | SSOReady

Timezones are weird. But only finitely so. Here's the exact conceptual model you should have of them.