Video: Working With Time Zones in an Elixir Phoenix App

This talk was originally presented at the Philly Elixir Group February meeting.

“Today we are going to talk about time zones, specifically what they are, how Elixir handles them and then talk about some strategies you can apply when working with time zones in the context of an Elixir Phoenix app backed by an Ecto database.”

• Video on Vimeo 29 minutes
• Slides PDF / SpeakerDeck

Here are some of the reference links mentioned:

• ElixirConf 2019 - Date, Time, and Time Zones in Elixir 1.9 - Lau Taarnskov
• Date and Time · Elixir School
• GitHub - lau/tzdata: tzdata for Elixir
• GitHub - lau/calendar: date-time and time zone handling in Elixir
• GitHub - bitwalker/timex: A complete date/time library for Elixir projects
• Elixir Forum: Tz, time zone support for Elixir (alternative to Tzdata)