[conspire] "Time zones exist to make programmers' lives miserable" ...

Michael Paoli Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu
Sat Feb 13 02:58:15 PST 2021


> From: "Rick Moen" <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> Subject: Re: [conspire] "Time zones exist to make programmers' lives  
> miserable" ...
> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 21:08:50 -0800

> Anyhow, after geeking out on these matters and researching each entry on
> https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:covid-19 , I've
> supplied what I _believe_ to be the optimal TZ spec for each online
> meeting, and added new section
> https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:covid-19#timezone_conversion
> at the bottom, as a cheatsheet about effective use of GNU date(1) to
> contend with timezone madness.
>
> Anyway, have a look at the revised wiki page at your convenience, good
> sir.  Thanks.

Ah, sweet!  I'd earlier thought of adding mention, and link to one of your
relevant list postings.  But alas, you've done me better.

And yes, there are reasons these things are wiki.  :-)

Looks good.

Thanks.




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