Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones

Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones by v768 on Sunday April 17, 2016 @05:53PM (#11516505)

I would add most programmers don't know some time zones have offsets in minutes. In ancient times, some were in seconds. I live in UTC-04:30 and regularly encounter bugs because of it.

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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones by majewsky on Monday April 18, 2016 @03:36AM (#11518292)

Here in Germany (which once consisted of 100-or-so small states), the introduction of a unified timezone only happened when railroad systems were built, because people noticed for the first time that their clocks were off by a slight amount.

Until the unified timezone happened, timetables would be printed with multiple timezone information. So maybe your train would depart in Dresden at exactly 14:00 Saxonian time, take exactly three hours to drive to Berlin, and arrive there at 17:06 Prussian time.

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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones by antod on Sunday April 17, 2016 @06:02PM (#11516535)

Or that +/-12hrs is enough offset for everyone.

eg daylight savings is UTC+13:00 here.

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