A Reading Club For Software Developers

#TimeData

tl;dr: Since the rules for timezones are constantly in change, this post visualizes the increasing complexities of dealing with time related data.

featured in #253

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time Zones

- Zain Rizvi

#TimeData

tl;dr: UTC offsets go from -12 to +12, every UTC offset corresponds to exactly one time zone, there are more countries in the world than time zones, and more.

featured in #212

Building A More Accurate Time Service At Facebook Scale

- Zoe Talamantes Oleg Obleukhov

#Facebook
#TimeData

tl;dr: How FB improved accuracy from 10 milliseconds to 100 microseconds and verified these results in our timing laboratory.

featured in #177

Pendulum

- Sébastien Eustace

#Python
#TimeData

tl;dr: When facing complex use-cases, "datetime instances show limitations" and are not intuitive. Pendulum provides "a cleaner and more easy to use API."

featured in #170

The Complexity of Time Data Programming

- Heimir Sverrisson

#TimeData

featured in #94.1

When Should You Use DateTime vs Time

- Andrew White

#TimeData
#Python

featured in #37.1

Five Different Ways to Handle Leap Seconds

- Miroslav Lichar

#TimeData
#PracticalTips

featured in #35.1

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time and Time Zones

- Lau T

#TimeData
#Antipattern

featured in #25.1

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