Tag: #timezone
Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 4 posts
tzdata 2026c — Canada Stops Turning the Clocks, Morocco Returns to GMT
tzdata 2026c, the third release this year of the IANA time zone database, came out on July 8. British Columbia and Alberta abolished seasonal clock changes, becoming permanent -07 and -06 respectively; Morocco returns to
2026-07-17 · 15 min read #infrastructure#tzdata#timezone#cldr#dstTimestamps and Time Zones, Done Right
Store UTC, display local. The epoch vs ISO 8601, the crucial difference between an offset and a time zone (the IANA tz database), the gaps and overlaps DST creates, leap seconds, why you must never trust the client clock
2026-06-14 · 12 min read #datetime#timezone#fundamentalsFalsehoods Programmers Believe About Time
A day has 24 hours, a minute has 60 seconds, the clock only moves forward, a time zone is a fixed offset. Every one of these propositions that programmers take for granted about time is false. We walk the famous "falseho
2026-06-12 · 9 min read #datetime#timezone#fundamentalsThe Technical Hell of Time and Date — TimeZone, DST, Leap Seconds, Temporal API, NTP Complete Guide (2025)
"I thought using UTC on the server would be enough…" — every developer gets bitten by time bugs at least once. From the real difference between Unix timestamp and ISO 8601, the subtle distinctions between UTC/GMT/TAI, th
2026-04-15 · 19 min read #datetime#timezone#temporal#ntp#dst