neomanic
@neomanic.bsky.social
embedded+other software dev, run and ride (slowly), late dx ND
Mulubinba, Australia
Mulubinba, Australia
Great writeup on storing times.
My own pet peeve with time programming... that messaging apps don't show _both_ my local time and my conversation partner(s)'s. Timezone conversion in my head or flipping over to a world clock app is frustrating when you have friends around the world.
My own pet peeve with time programming... that messaging apps don't show _both_ my local time and my conversation partner(s)'s. Timezone conversion in my head or flipping over to a world clock app is frustrating when you have friends around the world.
I wrote a thing about "Storing time for human events" - how if you're building an events website used by actual human beings the standard advice of "convert times to UTC and just store that" isn't actually the best approach
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simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/27/...
Storing times for human events
I’ve worked on various event websites in the past, and one of the unintuitively difficult problems that inevitably comes up is the best way to store the time that an …
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November 27, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Great writeup on storing times.
My own pet peeve with time programming... that messaging apps don't show _both_ my local time and my conversation partner(s)'s. Timezone conversion in my head or flipping over to a world clock app is frustrating when you have friends around the world.
My own pet peeve with time programming... that messaging apps don't show _both_ my local time and my conversation partner(s)'s. Timezone conversion in my head or flipping over to a world clock app is frustrating when you have friends around the world.