[11:01] <slashtom> http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/1030/detail/ - starts 7pm local time right?
[11:13] <ebel> timezones are fun!
[11:15] <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
[11:16] <slashtom> ah yes, me stupid
[11:17] <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
[11:18] <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
[11:19] <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?
[11:20] <ebel> AFAIK there are non-approved locos on the loco directory. you don't have to be approved.
[11:21] <ebel> Timezones are hard.
[11:22] <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?
[11:24] <ebel> With localized times (i.e. with timezones) there's a lot of crazy things that can happen
[11:25] <ebel> like how there is never any 01:30am on 27th March, and there are 2 01:30am later in the year. :)
[11:26] <ebel> You want to see crazy, look at the calendar for September 1752.
[11:27] <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.
[11:29] <tdr112> it starts at 8pm
[11:30] <slashtom> ebel: everyone knows that time started on 1 January 1970
[11:31] <ebel> slashtom: gets complicated cause UTC didn't exist till 1972 :P
[11:32] <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
[11:33]  * ebel has spent waaaay too much time investigating dates/times/timezones :P
[11:33]  * slashtom should use ebel to monitor the time