Simon Willison’s Weblog

django-timezones. Models, form fields and a template filter for dealing with timezones in Django. 21st August 2008, 11:18 pm

What’s New in Edge Rails: Easier Timezones (via) Time zones can be a nightmare to get right—if this works well it’s going to make a lot of people’s lives a whole bunch easier. 2nd April 2008, 3:39 pm

calendar.timegm() (via) An “unrelated but handy function” that converts a time.gmtime() in to a corresponding Unix timestamp. I’ve been hand-rolling this one for years; never thought to look in calendar. 3rd September 2007, 1:54 am

Django vs feedparser on dates. Some useful tips in the comments. I find Python’s timezone stuff endlessly frustrating: I know it can do what I want, but it always takes me a ridiculously long time to figure out the necessary incantations. 2nd September 2007, 10:17 am

A Zoned Defense. Using JavaScript’s date.getTimezoneOffset() to detect the user’s timezone and stash it in a cookie. 20th March 2007, 9:51 am