Links and references for a presentation at JSConf.eu 2015.
Links from the presentation
- Blogs and visualisations
- How much is time wrong around the world? by Stefano Maggiolo
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names by Patrick McKenzie
- Falsehoods programmers believe about time by Noah Sussman
- More falsehoods programmers believe about time; “wisdom of the crowd” edition by Noah Sussman
- A tale of time zones and feature discovery in JIRA by me
- Time Zone Abbreviations by Matt Johnson
- Global time, emotional time, and the annoyance of DST by Stefano Maggiolo (a rebuttal to Swatch Internet Time)
- Daylight saving time around the world (data visualisation) by me
- Why isn’t my time zone highlighted on the world map? on MSDN blogs (Windows 95 time zone map removal)
- News
- Crimea to adopt Moscow Standard Time on timeanddate.com (and a different look at this event in the Washington Post)
- North Korea to turn clocks back by 30 minutes to establish own time zone on The Guardian
- Code
- IANA time zone database
- CLDR – Unicode Common Locale Data Repository
- GeoNames web service API to get time zone from latitude/longitude
- JavaScript libraries
- Bugs
- A better future
- ECMAScript Internationalization API v2
- navigator.timeZone proposal on Web Platform Incubator Community Group
- Time Zone Data Distribution Service (IETF draft)
Further reading
- The time it takes to update the time by Stefano Maggiolo
- Anything on Code of Matt by Matt Johnson