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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

720: Where Does Time Come From?

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It is time. Wes and Scott attempt to blow your minds by talking about time, who’s tracking time, where does time come from, what time is it in your browser vs someone else’s server, and standards around time. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 00:55 Thanks to Chris Enns LemonProductions.ca Chris Enns on Twitter Podcast tutorials by Chris Enns on YouTube 03:14 What is time in the browser? 06:27 What are atomic clocks? Atomic Clocks and Cloudflare 08:22 Network time 09:35 Device time 11:11 Why is time so important? 14:35 Epoch time Syntax epoch convertor 16:58 ISO 8601 standard ISO 8601 19:20 RFC 3339 RFC3339 20:35 Time zone support 21:59 The Temporal API Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads

Transcript

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0:00.0

Monday, Monday, Monday, Monday, open wide Dev fans.

0:04.0

Get ready to stuff your face with JavaScript,

0:07.0

CSS, node modules, barbecue tips, get workflows,

0:10.0

break dancing, soft skills, web development,

0:12.0

the hastyest, the craziest, the craziest, the tastiest, web development

0:16.4

treats.

0:17.4

Coming in hot, here is Wes, Barracuda, Bars, and Scott, El Tor Toroloko Tolinsky.

0:25.0

Welcome to Syntax on this Monday hasty treat.

0:31.0

We're going to be talking about time.

0:34.3

Where does time come from?

0:35.7

When you say new date in your browser,

0:39.2

what the heck's that doing?

0:41.0

And what are some of the pitfalls of working with time?

0:44.0

What are some formats?

0:45.0

What are some things about temporal time zones?

0:48.0

That sort of stuff.

0:49.0

It's just going to be a little bit of a conversation about time.

0:53.6

But before we get into that,

0:55.3

this is episode number 720.

0:57.6

Let me just take a quick moment to give a really, really

1:02.3

sincere thank you to Chris Ens for doing such an amazing job

1:07.0

editing our podcast for so long. We have brought editing in-house. In fact, we have a new producer, Randy Rector, who will bring on to the show at some point here, so that he can say hi to everyone. But because of that that it meant having to say goodbye to our

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