Kevlin Henney
Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant, trainer, speaker and writer. His development interests and work with companies covers programming, practice and people. He is a contributor to the Modern Software Engineering YouTube channel and has written for many publications, including The Register and the O'Reilly Radar. Kevlin is also co-author of two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series, editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and co-editor of 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know.
Independent Consultant, Trainer, Speaker & Writer
Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey Stuff
Session Type: Talk
If you think you know everything you need to know about date–time handling, you are almost certainly wrong. If you think you don’t, you are almost certainly right. Come along to this talk to find out just wibbly-wobbly our grasp of time is.
Time... in our code we can capture from the past and from the future, we tidy it into data structures, snapshotting it into databases and watch its sands trickle through our APIs. It's all nice and logical, right?
Sadly not. If you think you know everything you need to know about date–time handling, you are almost certainly wrong. If you think you don’t, you are almost certainly right.
In this talk we'll have some fun by looking at some of the not-quite-right assumptions we hold and and learn from the messes that w̶e̶ other people have made.
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