CppCon 2016: Howard Hinnant “Welcome To The Time Zone"

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This talk builds on the date/time library presented last year and shows how one can handle conversions among multiple time zones in a type-safe manner.

The entire library is very much chrono-centric, and so inherits desirable features from chrono such as type safety and arbitrary precision.

This time zone libraries have divided themselves by structure and concepts such as absolute time and civil time. While these concepts are useful, and found in this library, this library cuts in other dimensions.

This library draws a clear distinction between calendars and times. Thus this library has been designed from the ground up to not only work well with the Gregorian calendar, but with other calendars as well. Even with calendars written by you. It accomplishes this by using the chrono library as its chief communication channel with the calendar.

This talk is a sequel to my Cppcon 2015 talk a date/time library:    • CppCon 2015: Howard Hinnant “A C++14 appro...  

If you can, see my talk earlier this week about chrono, and my talk about an example calendar from last year:    • CppCon 2015: Howard Hinnant “A C++14 appro...  . This talk builds upon these foundational tools.
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Howard Hinnant
Senior Software Engineer, Ripple
Lead author of several C++11 features including: move semantics, unique_ptr and . | | Lead author on three open source projects: A std::lib implementation: http://libcxx.llvm.org | An Itanium ABI implementation: http://libcxxabi.llvm.org | A date/time/timezone library: https://github.com/HowardHinnant/date
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