EMx 108: What Time Is It? Dealing with Date, Time and Timezones in Elixir with Lau Taarnskov

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. Sponsors

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Panel

• Alex Koutmos
• Mika Kalathil
• Bruce Tate
• Lars Wikman
• Sophie DeBenedetto

Guest

• Lau Taarnskov

Links

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

Picks Alex Koutmos:

• Dynamically Configure Your Plugs at Run-time
• An IoT Birdhouse with Elixir Nerves & Phoenix LiveView Components

Bruce Tate:

• Why Things Fail, a series on failure with Brian Troutwine and Bruce Tate
• The Problem with Time & Timezones – Computerphile

Sophie DeBenedetto:

• You might not need the Calendar or Timex libraries

Lau Taarnskov:

• We’re hiring – TheRealReal
• Domain Modeling Made Functional by Scott Wlaschin

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