FoC Virtual Meetup 2024.7 Wednesday November 27 • 16:00 UTC NB: That's less than 24 hours from now. I'll post the link here in this channel about an hour before it starts. We'll have demos from @Kartik Agaram, @Tom Larkworthy, and @Cole. See you there! We're also setting up a luma, and the event is listed there, so feel free to register if you want them to send you a reminder — https://lu.ma/futureofcoding

thanks for the timezone link 🙂

I just realized that I’ve never once figured out how to get that site to show me the event time in my time zone. 😂 Can it do that?

When I open the site, it tells me the time in my time zone. I'm not logged in or anything — I think it's just doing an IP lookup?

How did I miss that! Thanks.

System time perhaps. But I think it hasn't worked for me either in the past, though it does today. This site is basically the reason my recent timezone calculator has a design constraint of, "what I see is what everybody sees."

@Kartik Agaram I’m so glad you caught it in the act. 😂 I feel better.

Sites can get the time zone from the browser. If, like me, you have a high-privacy configuration for your browser, they get none or a wrong one. For example, under Linux I use LibreWolf, which always claims UTC as its time zone. That's a pain when looking for local bus schedules, but otherwise I can live with it. And for bus schedules, I use my phone.

This is easily solved by moving to the prime meridian

Don't forget the meetup everyone 😄 40 minutes to go.

@Chris Knott I actually live quite close to the prime meridian. But my country decided, long ago, that it would rather associate itself with central Europe than adopt the time zone of its formal rival for hosting the prime meridian. Geography is manageable, but politics...

The recording has been posted here: https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/C01932BJGE8/p1732734575091869