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| From | Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.ada |
| Subject | Re: Ada Monthly Meetup, 7th of March |
| Date | 2026-02-21 21:22 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <10nd7m8$1jipc$3@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <10nbsn5$14ahv$1@dont-email.me> <20260221201013.1e8b665b@tag.xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> |
On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:10:13 +0100, Björn Persson wrote: > In the Ada spirit of preventing preventable mistakes, you can > prevent this kind of mistake by writing time offsets as hours from > UTC instead of cryptic acronyms. UTC is good. Next best is to use timezone names from the tz database. E.g. “CET” works (regardless of daylight saving) as a shorter alternative to “Europe/Brussels”, as do things like “America/New_York”, and “Pacific/Auckland” (hello). If in doubt what names to use, have a look in /usr/share/zoneinfo on just about any Linux system or compatible. Here <https://gitlab.com/ldo/conv-date> is a simple (less than 100 lines) shell script that will show and convert times using any of these valid timezone names. See the accompanying man page for details.
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Re: Ada Monthly Meetup, 7th of March Björn Persson <Bjorn@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> - 2026-02-21 20:10 +0100
Re: Ada Monthly Meetup, 7th of March Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-21 21:22 +0000
Re: Ada Monthly Meetup, 7th of March Björn Persson <Bjorn@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> - 2026-02-22 11:49 +0100
Re: Ada Monthly Meetup, 7th of March Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-22 23:33 +0000
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