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Discussion on: When you DIY a Time Zone library

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Tomas Forsman

'You being the experienced developer you know there has to be a list of time zones by country, all you need is that and calculate the difference between the timezones.'

Made me laugh so hard!

'At least your project wasn't needing to calculate the seconds between two points in time, dependent on time zone...'

Got this assignment by a sadistic teacher in the late 90s. Had a lot of fun failing that one and learned to appreciate a good library.

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James Turner

Things like time zones and internationalization are funny beasts - they seem simple in one way but explode with complexity if you delve in remotely deep.

Got this assignment by a sadistic teacher in the late 90s. Had a lot of fun failing that one and learned to appreciate a good library.

That would be one hell of an assignment!

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Tomas Forsman • Edited

And, as you said, add history to the mix and you got a recipe for man made psychosis.