Year: 2012

What is a date?  This seems like a silly question.  Indeed, if you are an independent local business person, it is a silly question.  A date is, for example, the seventh of September, 2011 (“2011-09-07”).  It describes a period of 24 hours that starts at midnight and ends just before midnight. If you only care about dates in, let’s say,… Read more →

I’ve spent too many working days figuring out how to handle dates and times in relational data base management systems. From looking at the questions on stackoverflow.com it’s obvious that a lot of people have the same kinds of questions and confusions I have. I’m a lazy programmer. I’d much rather do this stuff right than do it over, and I… Read more →