Every programmer starts off thinking that dates and times are easy. “Just do …,” they’ll say. And then you realize that ISO 8601 has more than a few ways just t

Every programmer starts off thinking that dates and times are easy. “Just do …,” they’ll say. And then you realize that ISO 8601 has more than a few ways just to write down the time, let alone manipulate it. Dates and times are a very, very deep rabbit hole. Fortunately most of the time you can get by with just local dates and times or zoned dates and times.