[clue] Just plain handy.

[Chris Fedde]

Time is an illusion.  Tea time doubly so.

> So how would you do that on your smart phone (assuming you're running the
stock OS)?
In code? or from a ui?  There are plenty of web pages that'll do that.

I have spent my share of debugging working out odd issues related to time
and date offsets.  Many computer systems have bad clocks that are not
synchronized to anything.  To say nothing about actual timestamp formats,
timezones and so on.
It's a swamp out there. Everyone seems to think it is easy and everyone
seems to get it wrong.

Here is an interesting, if old blog post for your amusement.

http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time


On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 1:06 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us>wrote:

> I ran across this on a blog:
>
>  > Run the following command to see what the local time will be for you.
>  >
>  > date --date '2014-04-18 09:00:00 UTC'
>
> So how would you do that on your smart phone (assuming you're running the
> stock OS)?
>
> I also ran across a question at work, about how to change the UTC offset
> on a time sent in a REST
> request.  Seriously?  It wasn't a question about entering a time in a
> tool, it was about getting a
> tool to provide a different offset.  Like computers care what time zone
> you're apparently in.
>
> Dave
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