Here in the US, we all jumped our clocks ahead (for perhaps maybe one of the final times) and that event surfaced this interesting deep dive onto my radar: the Time Zone Database. In a fascinating 14-minute read, Daniel Rosehill goes into two key details that are, no joke, keeping an essential part of the internet running. The first is the actual database itself. This is one that has been in existence for decades and computers running macOS and Linux use to retrieve their time zone information. This is baked into the operating system itself. That’s how important it is.…
- Post date April 1, 2022
- Tags culture, daylight saving time