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A developer's nightmare: Dealing with time and dates in Ruby and Rails

Ruby on Rails is currently aware of 32 time zones. There is no global standard defined for the daylight saving time (DST). These and many other circumstances challenge global remote teams who build software systems like GitHub that are used 24 hours by people all over the world.

Hear about some issues we have to fight against at GitHub and benefit from the lessons we've learned.