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I ran into a similar issue applying for Global Entry. Luckily an appointment at 3am on Saturday suggested the times were in UTC. Nevertheless this was unnecessa
by sswu 8y ago
I ran into a similar issue applying for Global Entry. Luckily an appointment at 3am on Saturday suggested the times were in UTC. Nevertheless this was unnecessary uncertainty and anxiety - what about those who aren't familiar with UTC time?
How can we design datetime libraries to prevent these issues? Or at least make it so that error-prone behaviors must be very explicit?
- RyJones 8y agoWhen I went to get global entry, there were tons of people showing up 12 hours early.
- jzwinck 8y agoWait, their customer facing UI only supports a timezone that virtually no humans use? That doesn't sound like a datetime library design problem, it sounds like they totally neglected to use a datetime library at all.
- repolfx 8y agoWell, the problem is web apps, or seen another way, lack of good distribution mechanisms for desktop apps. Write your frontend in Java 8 and you have access to a full blown date/time library that handles all the edge cases and has been well thought out. Do it in JS and you got bupkis.