Video: Working With Time Zones in an Elixir Phoenix App
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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.”
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)
About the Author. Mike Zornek is a developer and teacher focusing on product design and development with a heavy focus on Elixir and LiveView. In between his projects, Mike helps other teams through consulting. During off hours, he enjoyed watching Phillies baseball and playing relaxing video games.