[11:01] http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/1030/detail/ - starts 7pm local time right? [11:13] timezones are fun! [11:15] 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] ah yes, me stupid [11:17] is there any country/area which is on UTC for 12 months of the year? [11:17] 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] slashtom: Iceland [11:18] 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] quite a few http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%C2%B10 [11:19] maybe the Loco Directory has been designed just for people in Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, etc [11:19] and of course the Ascension Islands [11:19] cannot possibly forget them [11:19] but do they have an approved loco? [11:20] AFAIK there are non-approved locos on the loco directory. you don't have to be approved. [11:21] Timezones are hard. [11:22] It's like character encodings. It's quite often these things go wrong. [11:22] why hasn't anyone made a library for this kind of thing? [11:24] With localized times (i.e. with timezones) there's a lot of crazy things that can happen [11:25] like how there is never any 01:30am on 27th March, and there are 2 01:30am later in the year. :) [11:26] You want to see crazy, look at the calendar for September 1752. [11:27] In the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland there was no 13th September 1752. [11:27] 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] it starts at 8pm [11:30] ebel: everyone knows that time started on 1 January 1970 [11:31] slashtom: gets complicated cause UTC didn't exist till 1972 :P [11:32] 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