The Secret Masters of Time: Who Really Controls Your datetime.now()?

Who controls time in Python, JavaScript, Java, C#, and Go? Not the language creators. Not tech giants. A small team of volunteers whose decisions instantly propagate to billions of devices worldwide. Discover the shocking truth about the IANA Time Zone Database - the single source of temporal truth that every programming language secretly depends on. In 5 breathtaking minutes, meet the Time Lords whose midnight email updates can break your production code, and trace the invisible pipeline from government timezone announcements to your datetime.now() calls.

Time & Room

Tue, Oct 28th, 15:00 - 15:05 • Room: Main hall

Speakers

Alon Wolenitz

Software developer @ Drorsoft