{"id":600,"date":"2009-10-27T11:59:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T16:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:40:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:40:36","slug":"who-says-timezones-cant-be-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/who-says-timezones-cant-be-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Who says timezones can&#039;t be fun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had to get involved with timezones and daylight savings time rules at work recently, while another coworker who usually handles them was out on vacation.  It&#8217;s a really interesting thing to work on given how most people take it entirely for granted that their computer &#8220;knows what time it is.&#8221;  Take my word for it, a lot of work goes into that particular piece of magic, and it&#8217;s very detail-oriented work because you <em>really<\/em> don&#8217;t want to get that wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as detail-oriented as it may be, timezones can also be quite interesting.  I enjoyed this <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jonudell.net\/2009\/10\/23\/a-literary-appreciation-of-the-olsonzoneinfotz-database\/\">article about some of the historical anecdotes around timezones<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had to get involved with timezones and daylight savings time rules at work recently, while another coworker who usually handles them was out on vacation. It&#8217;s a really interesting thing to work on given how most people take it entirely for granted that their computer &#8220;knows what time it is.&#8221; Take my word for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}