jonskeet

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by jonskeet 8y ago
I think you've misunderstood what's changing here. It's not a matter of time zones not knowing that rules vary across time. It's a matter of knowing that "the rules for 2022" vary over time as well - in that th
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by jonskeet 9y ago
I've mentioned a few times to MS folks that I'd be very happy for the mscorlib team to make Noda Time redundant. They haven't bitten yet though.
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by jonskeet 11y ago
Well, my C# book (C# in Depth) has been well received. I'd like to think my date/time library for .NET (Noda Time) is mostly well-written. But no, nothing that I'd expect to put me in the top 15 (or top 1500) programmers in t
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by jonskeet 11y ago
> Most high calibre devs would be still wrapping their head around the problem after 15 minutes. reply Most high calibre devs haven't stumbled into doing a lot of date/time work. That wasn't some clever decision on my part
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by jonskeet 11y ago
> The biggest issue with idolizing people this much in my opinion is that it puts a huge divide between you and that idol. If it's any help, I'd be happy to give a huge list of bugs I've caused due to inexperience and inco
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by jonskeet 11y ago
They're not meaningful at all. Hopefully relatively few people really think I'm one of the "top 15 living programmers" or anything like that. I'm good enough to make a living, and good enough to help people on SO.
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by jonskeet 13y ago
If you want to indicate a time zone you shouldn't just use the offsets - they're ambiguous in that several different time zones can have the same offset at any point in time. Better (IMO) to use the zoneinfo ID, e.g. "Europe/London" - alo
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by jonskeet 13y ago
I wonder if it deals with Sweden properly if you're there. cal 2 1712 should show February 30th... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_30#Swedish_calendar
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by jonskeet 13y ago
Oh there are plenty of time zones which aren't "on the hour". But most of them either don't observe DST or are unimaginitive about it. I was far more impressed by Nepal's proposal (later dropped, I believe) to have a 1:15 daylight saving tr
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by jonskeet 13y ago
I only tick in .NET. In Java I millisecond instead.