| slashtom | http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/1030/detail/ - starts 7pm local time right? | 11:01 |
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| ebel | timezones are fun! | 11:13 |
| ebel | slashtom: no, 20:00 UTC is 9:00pm Irish time. You can see that if you import the iCal event from the LoCo Directory into Google Calendar | 11:15 |
| slashtom | ah yes, me stupid | 11:16 |
| slashtom | is there any country/area which is on UTC for 12 months of the year? | 11:17 |
| ebel | If you import the loco directory ical feed http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/ubuntu-ie/ical/ then it comes up as 9pm aswell. | 11:17 |
| ebel | slashtom: Iceland | 11:17 |
| ebel | and loads of countries in africa are UTC/GMT all year round http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_Time#Time_zones_of_Africa | 11:18 |
| slashtom | quite a few http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%C2%B10 | 11:18 |
| slashtom | maybe the Loco Directory has been designed just for people in Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, etc | 11:19 |
| slashtom | and of course the Ascension Islands | 11:19 |
| slashtom | cannot possibly forget them | 11:19 |
| slashtom | but do they have an approved loco? | 11:19 |
| ebel | AFAIK there are non-approved locos on the loco directory. you don't have to be approved. | 11:20 |
| ebel | Timezones are hard. | 11:21 |
| ebel | It's like character encodings. It's quite often these things go wrong. | 11:22 |
| slashtom | why hasn't anyone made a library for this kind of thing? | 11:22 |
| ebel | With localized times (i.e. with timezones) there's a lot of crazy things that can happen | 11:24 |
| ebel | like how there is never any 01:30am on 27th March, and there are 2 01:30am later in the year. :) | 11:25 |
| ebel | You want to see crazy, look at the calendar for September 1752. | 11:26 |
| ebel | In the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland there was no 13th September 1752. | 11:27 |
| ebel | Course you back far enough and new years day wasn't 1st January, so it can be hard to figure out what year it was. | 11:27 |
| tdr112 | it starts at 8pm | 11:29 |
| slashtom | ebel: everyone knows that time started on 1 January 1970 | 11:30 |
| ebel | slashtom: gets complicated cause UTC didn't exist till 1972 :P | 11:31 |
| ebel | also posix/epoch time (which you might be thinking of), doesn't count the number of seconds since 1 jan 1970. It doesn't do leap seconds :P | 11:32 |
| * ebel has spent waaaay too much time investigating dates/times/timezones :P | 11:33 | |
| * slashtom should use ebel to monitor the time | 11:33 | |
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