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119: Data Types: DateTimes Part 2.

Category: Technology
Duration: 00:17:04
Publish Date: 2016-06-06 02:44:04
Description:

Dates and times are a lot more complicated than we normally realize. Having a specific data type to manage all the details is crucial.

This episode explains the following topics related to time:

  • What is UTC and the difference between coordinated universal time, UTC, and Greenwich Mean Time, GMT.
  • How to handle midnight and noon.
  • How to specify time zones and what it means when the time zone is unspecified.
  • How to work with and read aloud 24 hour time formats.
  • How to specify fractional time units. For example, how to write a time that includes microseconds.
  • How to work with leap seconds.
  • How to combine dates and times into a DateTime format.
  • How to specify date and time intervals.
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