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Friday, March 07, 2008 7:00 AM

Why can't I convert a time zone abbreviation into a time zone?

Time zone names are ambiguous.
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Friday, November 02, 2007 7:00 AM

Staying on top of things with timely updates in separator pages

A bit late now.
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Friday, March 09, 2007 7:00 AM

Don't be so fast to discount those oddball time zones

One out of every six people lives in an oddball time zone.
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Friday, October 27, 2006 7:00 AM

The great Polish Sea -or- We forgot Poland!

Oopsie.
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Friday, October 28, 2005 7:00 AM

How to recognize different types of sentinel timestamps from quite a long way away

Values at or near the limits of various timestamp formats.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2004 7:00 AM

Why can't you treat a FILETIME as an __int64?

The two types have different alignment rules.
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Thursday, February 26, 2004 9:20 AM

Why do timestamps change when I copy files to a floppy?

Floppy disks use the FAT filesystem, as do DOS-based and Windows 95-based operating systems. On the other hand, Windows NT-based systems (Windows 2000, XP, 2003, ...) tend to use the NTFS filesystem. (Although you can format a drive as FAT on Windows
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Friday, October 24, 2003 7:00 AM

Why Daylight Savings Time is nonintuitive

Daylight Savings Time ends this weekend in most of North America and Europe, so it seems a good time to discuss the whole problem of Daylight Savings Time and timestamps.
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Friday, August 22, 2003 8:41 AM

Why isn't my time zone highlighted on the world map?

Geopolitics is a very sensitive subject.
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