<div dir="ltr">Time is an illusion. Tea time doubly so. <div><br></div><div>> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">So how would you do that on your smart phone (assuming you're running the stock OS)?</span></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">In code? or from a ui? There are plenty of web pages that'll do that.<br></font><div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div>It's a swamp out there. Everyone seems to think it is easy and everyone seems to get it wrong.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is an interesting, if old blog post for your amusement.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time">http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time</a><br>
</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 1:06 PM, David L. Anselmi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anselmi@anselmi.us" target="_blank">anselmi@anselmi.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I ran across this on a blog:<br>
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> Run the following command to see what the local time will be for you.<br>
><br>
> date --date '2014-04-18 09:00:00 UTC'<br>
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So how would you do that on your smart phone (assuming you're running the stock OS)?<br>
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I also ran across a question at work, about how to change the UTC offset on a time sent in a REST<br>
request. Seriously? It wasn't a question about entering a time in a tool, it was about getting a<br>
tool to provide a different offset. Like computers care what time zone you're apparently in.<br>
<br>
Dave<br>
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