What Time Is It? Dealing with Date, Time and Timezones in Elixir with Lau Taarnskov - Emx 260

In this episode of Elixir Mix, we’re joined by Lau Tornskau, creator of the tzdata library and prolific Elixir open-source contributor, to talk about how to ensure “correctness” of time-related data in Elixir and how Elixir’s standard library has grown to include native support for handling time zones.

Links

• www.creativedeletion.com
• http://twitter.com/laut
• https://github.com/lau

Picks

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• Bruce- Why Things Fail, a series on failure with Brian Troutwine and Bruce Tate
• Bruce - The Problem with Time & Timezones – Computerphile
• Sophie - You might not need the Calendar or Timex libraries
• Lau - We’re hiring – TheRealReal
• Lau - Domain Modeling Made Functional by Scott Wlaschin

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