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S09E08 Modern Web Podcast- ”If You Can JavaScript, You Can Backend” with Swizec Teller

Modern Web

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Time Zones Are Far Trickier Than Any Team Tends to Think

Time zones are far trickier than any team tends to think. If somebody makes an appointment for tuesday at five, they don't mean the precise t c offset corresponding to that in some global but according to their local time. Different programming languages treat those ten days differently, so you get random offsets on the date. And it gets even worse time on a pacific island said, you know what? We're actually on the other side of the date line. So they didn't just change ours they changed whole dates by two days. Ah, and i recently learned that cava script actual has a date bug, because sometime during the sixteenth century we switched from the julian to

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