timezone

This article is a stub. You can help the IndieWeb wiki by expanding it.

Timezones are names used to highlight regions on the globe that are used to define a uniform time for society's use (legal, finance, social). Examples of them are Pacific Standard Time or Eastern Daylight Savings Time.

Criticism

timezones are a way to create dependencies in your code on legislative bodies in countries you have never heard of.

• https://twitter.com/kevinmarks/status/458358080690868224

Articles

• 2015-08-06 Tantek Çelik: Why You Should Use Timezone Offsets Not Timezone Names

• top ten craziest timezone boundaries

• 2018-05 Zach Holman UTC is enough for everyone...right?

See Also

• geocoding
• Z
• time
• https://www.xkcd.com/1883/
• https://davecturner.github.io/2018/08/12/working-with-timezones.html
• [https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder
• Challenges with marking up: https://twitter.com/PeterNikolow/status/1090258923146207233
  • "Dates... haha just add timezone and often can see "why time in SERP is different than HTML?" in Webmasters forums" @PeterNikolow January 29, 2019
• The public domain Time Zone Database is publicly maintained on GitHub. The NEWS file makes for interesting reading on “legislative bodies” shaking things up.
• https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a-silver-bullet/
• https://mathstodon.xyz/@JordiGH/108256228925577019
  • "" @JordiGH May 6, 2022
• new tz problem just dropped https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/26/lebanon-split-into-two-time-zones-in-row-over-daylight-saving