The Outer Limits of the Java Time Zone

July 19, 2007 | by Garrett
Recently I was irritated with some major headaches caused by Java’s date/time functionality. I spent a couple days debugging my code, and stepping through every possibility until coming to the realization, my code worked. So what was causing the discrepancy with my local machine, and the staging server? Apparently java uses /etc/localtime on linux, and the [...]
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A Dev’s Life @ 2paths

February 1, 2007 | by Garrett
My Background: I joined the team in May of 2006. Basically a fresh graduate from the computer science department of the University of Manitoba. Studied typical computer stuff, such as DB, UI, AI, software engineering, networking, applied mathematics. Completed a business minor from the Asper School of business, where my primary courses were international market and business theory. I [...]
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