120: Localize and Personalize Your Elixir Apps
Thinking Elixir Podcast
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The Complexity of Time Zones
Complexity of time zones comes only because we need to reconcile time across different individual human experiences. Time measurement in the way that we present it's years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds is really nothing more than the historic attempt to synchronize astronomical events with human existence. So why is it why is it sex adjustable counting 60 digits because the Sumerians use 60Why did they use 60 let's say there's a couple of reasons more common factors in a sensibly available number one, two, three, four, five, six, 10 and 12 which is great for if you haven't got a calculator or an abacus.
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