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#timezones

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Matthew Slowe

I've noticed this recently... calendering things only half handling #timezones in User Interfaces.

For example the screenshot is about a time when Summer Time (+1h) is in play for all three of the listed cities so it's not UTC+00:00, it's UTC+01:00.

Am I booking at 09:00Z or 09:00 local UK time?

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Niklas

I don't know what kind of trail camera WWF Finland uses for their live nest video feeds, but the software on them is interesting (for some definition of interesting); after 23:59:59, when most clocks would roll over to 00:00:00, it shows 24:00:00. The date doesn't update until 3 a.m., which implies that only the time is translated to the local time zone from an internal UTC-based clock.

Live nest cams: wwf.fi/luontolive/

#Dull#DullMensClub#NotVeryInteresting
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Anthony Horton

Oh, I've discovered some more fun* examples of "developers can't timezone".

There is a phone app available to pair with my ebike, "My Smartbike" from the bike's power system manufacturer, Mahle. It will, optionally, record GPS data from the phone along with assorted power data from the bike, and make it available through the app and Mahle's web portal. If that's all you do with the data you probably won't notice an issue.

Turns out though, when you ask for the data in GPX format (either manually via the portal, or automatically via an upload to Strava) then it writes all the timestamps in local time but puts a "Z' on the end, which is a timezone specifier for UTC ("Zulu Time").

OK, simple screw up, not too interesting. What's more interesting is what happens when Strava is presented with one of these wrong timezone files...

(1/4)

#Strava#Cycling#Ebike
Tim Panton

From the "Modern IoT is indistinguishable from being haunted" department :

A 'smart' plug here has decided to switch on 8 hours late.

After some digging it seems to have decided it is in Dawson/USA and set its timezone appropriately. (it isn't)

"It's up the Creek" quipped my actually smart partner.

#iot#haunting#timezones
James Flexner

The longest Wednesday ever: woke up yesterday around 10am Hawaii time to feed the dog, hung around til 9pm Hawaii time when it was time to go to the airport, flew all night, landed and it was somehow 10am Hawaii time on Wednesday again, now here I am around 10pm Hawaii time and somehow it is still Wednesday. #travel #hawaii from #australia #timezones

Birds Books and Bullshit

Hate daylight savings? New time zone proposal:

Sunrise is at 7 AM.
That's it.

Yes, the new time zones will be very thin. Yes, it won't work very well at very high latitudes. Yes, you will be constantly having to specify which time zone you scheduled something in. Yes, most days won't actually be 24 hours long anymore. Yes–okay actually this wasn't such a great idea.

#TimeZones#DaylightSavings#GreatIdeas
Dan Drake 🦆

In Peru for a vacation.

It is very strange that I changed seasons -- my first time in the southern hemisphere! It's autumn here -- but I didn't change time zones.

(Yes yes, it's simple, you just go due south a very long way...but part of my brain insists that you can't flip the seasons, and that when I've traveled far for a trip, I should be in a very different time zone.)

#peru#timezones#seasons
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