Joël enlists the help of thoughtbot colleague Sally Hall as they dive into the complex world of time zones, daylight savings, measurements and coding.

Together they discuss their struggles with daylight savings throwing off their recent project reporting, the constant struggles of writing for different time zones and why writing your own code is never worth the hassle, and the similar battle of writing for different units of measurement.

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Check out the idea behind "If Hemingway Wrote Javascript" and how it could help you with your coding.

Watch Tom Scott’s own slow decent into madness over timezones and coding.

Your guest this week has been Sally Hall, and your host for this episode has been thoughtbot’s own Joël Quenneville.

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