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Dealing with Timezones

April 13th, 2007 . 6 comments

I just deployed a fix to a Milestone timezone issue that’s been a thorn in my side for a few weeks now. As any web developer knows, managing your timezones properly can be a royal pain. Luckily theres the TzTime rails plugin by Jamis Buck to come to our rescue. Chris Cruft wrote a great introductory article that explains how to use the TZInfo gem, and then explains where TzTime comes in. I’ll just pick up from that point.

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twitter bot

Read your tweets for messages prefixed with @foo and post to that user. http://pastie.caboo.se/65927

# Read tyler-durden's tweets for any messages starting with '@project-mayhem'
#
#   $ ruby twitter_bot.rb tyler-durden project-mayhem my-password
#
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May17

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Displaying nice relative dates

<%= relative_time(Time.now) %>
# today
<%= relative_time(1.day.ago) %>
# yesterday
<%= relative_time(1.day.from_now) %>
# tomorrow
<%= relative_time_span([Time.now, 5.days.from_now]) %>
# May 17th - 22nd

— relative_time_helpers rails plugin

May16

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Discussing a Feature Removal

Rick:  no more lightbox?
Justin:  no, I banished it because it was useless the way it was being used.  
Rick:  ha, it was cool man
Justin:  yeah, Zune music sharing is cool too.
Rick:  touche

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