Dear, SEBASTIAN SMYTHE,

It is with great pleasure we invite you admission to Joie University! Welcome to the Thunderclap family!

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Congratulations, TAB! Please be sure to check the New Members’ Checklist and send in your character’s account within 24 hours from now. We cannot wait to see all that you will bring to this roleplay! We love you already!

OOC INFORMATION: Name/Alias; preferred pronouns: Tab, she/her Age, Timezone: (Just about) 26, GMT+8 Activity, short explanation: I work Sun, Mon, Tues, Wed so I’m only on in the evenings those days. Right now I’m off uni so in general Thurs-Sat are all good! Not sure what the workload of my next semesters units will be but I’ll still normally be on in the evenings/Saturdays regardless! Ships: Seb/male Anti-Ships: Seb/female (sorry ladies) Triggers: RFP Preferred photo for Character’s ID (please give a link): https://66.media.tumblr.com/58f4ef1ddf75373d83b614fbb4c99ffe/tumblr_p8saes2vqL1urvepco1_1280.jpg Anything else: I don’t think so!

IC INFORMATION: Full Name: Sebastian Walter Smythe FC: Grant Gustin Age: 24 Birth date: January 14, 1995 Hometown: Washington, DC. Moved to Paris when he was 6. Gender/Pronouns: Male, he/him Sexuality: Gay Major(s): Has an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Harvard but chose to undertake his graduate law degree at Joie. He is currently in 2nd year of a law degree, starting 3rd and final year in Sept. Minor(s): N/A Housing request: Off-campus (his own apartment if that’s possible, or the Sylvester apartments if own apartment isn’t possible) Extracurriculars: Captain(/president) of the lacrosse team if possible! Or VC/VP if capt is taken. Greek Life Affiliation: N/A

CHARACTER PROFILE: [At least] 3 Headcanons for your character:

1. Had a reputation in college for sleeping around (and was never ashamed of it) however, in his junior year actually got into a pretty serious relationship. It ended badly and it was part of the reason he chose to move away from Harvard and attend Joie, and is also the reason he has tried to shut himself off from the possibility of that again, resorting back to his old ways. 2. Speaks English and French fluently, lived in France for ten years as his father worked at he US Embassay in Paris. Spent most of his schooling in France, but still considers the US home, even if Paris is his second home. 3. Both parents were very busy when he was younger, and he isn’t particularly close to either of them though he still goes home over Christmas and the holidays every year, without fail. However, despite popular contrary beliefs, he did not choose law to attempt to please his parents. He had been interested in politics or law since he was younger.

STUDENT CENSUS SURVEY:

What made you want to attend Joie University?

I was bored of the inane, standard education at mainstreams universities, and thought it best to look elsewhere for my law degree. And if I was to convince my parents that I should go somewhere other than Harvard, it would have to be a well regarded school in its own right.

What are at least 3 positive or neutral and at least 3 negative traits that you believe you possess?

Only three positive? Wow. Okay. How to narrow it down. I’m confident, intelligent and attractive. What more could you want? As for negative, I have no negative traits. Cocky, over confident, rude.

Which of your traits do you value most?

Confidence, obviously.

How can that trait benefit the University (or its student body) as a whole?

Everybody benefits from confidence. Despite what some may think, I’m not a total asshole. I am more than willing to share my wisdom and help others be confident too.

What do you hope to gain from your experience at JU?

A law degree, a good time, and maybe a few friends I can depend on. You know, to bury the body. I don’t need help with the court side of things, I’ll have that covered.

What is a quote or song lyric that describes you?

♫ I’ve got more wit, a better kiss, a hotter touch, a better fuck ♫

[The Rapid Revitalization of China 1989-2019] Broadcast journalism witnesses history and records history. Three decades have passed. China Central Television (CCTV)’s 41-year-old flagship news program Xinwen Lianbo (新闻联播 / Синьвэнь Ляньбо), the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet-born television program Vremya (ВРЕМЯ / 时间; currently airs daily on Channel One Russia / Первый канал at 21:00 Moscow Time), the United States of America (USA)’s PBS NewsHour, France 2 (channel of France Télévisions)’s Journal de 20 heures or Vietnam Television (VTV)’s Thời Sự 19h (Current Affairs at 19:00 / 十九点时事), still punctually starts at 19:00 Beijing Time (GMT+08:00) every single day without any exception. Its 17-second theme music, composed by Meng Weidong (孟卫东, born 1955) in March 1988, remains unchanged. Xinwen Lianbo is still one of the world’s most-watched news programs. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has not been deceived by the hidden political agenda of Western hostile forces, even during the 2011 Arab Spring. On February 20, 2011, then-U.S. Ambassador to China and the incumbent U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman Jr. (洪博培, born 1960), who has been dreaming of “taking China down” for years, unexpectedly showed up among a huge crowd of Chinese pedestrians in the Wangfujing area of Beijing. Many ordinary Chinese people around Ambassador Huntsman immediately recognized his ulterior motives (see picture 7). A country that has massacred plenty of Native Americans at home, committed serious war crimes against humanity abroad, and asked its client state, Canada, to arrest Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Meng Wanzhou (孟晚舟, born 1972) has no moral high ground to lecture others on the subject of human rights; a country that requires most of its visa applicants to provide their social media information, and has forced both Russia’s RT America and China’s CGTN America to register as “foreign agents” has no moral high ground to lecture others when it comes to the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press. With regard to the 1989 Chinese political crisis, the Chinese mainland has been adopting the policy of “not debating” since the 1990s because the realization of the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the best answer to the question. Beijing has never glorified that chapter of history, whereas Japan, Russia, and the United States kept glorifying their imperialist past. In Japan, right-wing revisionist controversies have been numerous since the end of World War II in 1945, from the denial of the Nanjing Massacre (December 13, 1937 - January 1938) to “Comfort Women” (sexual slaves), and from the Yasukuni Shrine (靖国神社) to Moritomo Gakuen (森友学园). In Russia, the country did have widely glorified its 1858-1860 annexation of Outer Northeast China (Outer Manchuria) by printing the portrait of General Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky (Николай Николаевич Муравьёв-Амурский / 穆拉维约夫－阿穆尔斯基, 1809-1881) on the 5,000 Russian ruble banknote issued by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in 2006 (see picture 8). In the United States, Shane Osborn (born 1974), the American fighter pilot who invaded south China’s Hainan Island on April 1, 2001, Beijing Time, later became State Treasurer of Nebraska (2007-2011). Hainan is part of China, period. In addition, Republican Senator John McCain (1936-2018) was widely considered as a Vietnam War (1955-1975) “hero” by the bipartisan U.S. Establishment, despite the historical fact that former U.S. Secretary of State John Forbes Kerry (born 1943), whose great-grandfather Francis Blackwell Forbes (1839-1908) got rich selling opium in Qing China (1644-1911), was a leading activist against the U.S. invasion of Vietnam back in 1971, when Kerry himself was not yet part of the U.S. Establishment. By the way, Monday, June 3 also marks the 180th anniversary of the destruction of opium at Humen (虎门销烟) led by the Qing Dynasty official Lin Zexu (林则徐, 1785-1850). After the November 7, 1917, October Revolution, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR, 1922-1991) under the strong leadership of Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) and Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) rapidly rose to a heavy industry-oriented world power from a backward agriculture-oriented nation within only two decades. Neither of them could imagine the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, not to mention the 1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis that left at least 187 people killed, 437 people injured, the Russian White House bombarded, and the Ostankino Technical Center severely damaged. Due to the Western Establishment’s double standard, the October 1993 Moscow Massacre is rarely mentioned in today’s Western world. Some people may argue that Stalin’s Soviet Union defeated Nazi Germany (1933-1945)’s aggression, but had no rule of law. Well, today’s China is not the USSR. On October 28, 2014, then-Xinwen Lianbo News Anchor Li Xiuping (李修平, born 1963) spent more than 16 minutes reading the script related to the PRC’s rule of law (依法治国) live on CCTV (see picture 6). She left Lanzhou-based Gansu Television for Beijing-based CCTV in 1989. Stalin made many mistakes, but never betrayed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). It was rather Mikhail Gorbachev (born 1931) and Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) who betrayed the CPSU. The 20th Congress of the CPSU was held in February 1956. According to the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s official narrative, the Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) administration’s so-called “democratization” and total negation of Stalin already buried a curse for the collapse of the USSR 35 years later. Today in the 21st century, the Russian Federation’s geo-strategic space, being squeezed by the eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), is much smaller than that of the Soviet Union back in the 20th century. China, however, has become more and more unified. Hong Kong was returned to China from the British on July 1, 1997. Macao was returned to China from the Portuguese on December 20, 1999. Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech regarding the issue of Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) on January 2, 2019. After witnessing the tragedy of the fall of the Soviet Union, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov (Геннадий Андреевич Зюганов / 久加诺夫, born 1944) admires what China has achieved since the start of its reform and opening-up in December 1978. In April 2015, the American historian James Bradley (born 1954) published his fourth book titled The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia. Under the scientific instructions of the Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想) and the Chinese people’s untiring endeavors, the Western Establishment’s long-term “China Mirage” is doomed to fail! 

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When you develop some software you may not think about timezones at first. Unless you live in a country which has to deal with multiple time zones, such as the United States or Russia. I recently came across an issue involving timezones. There were some unit tests making assertions about dates that used to work at my office in France but weren't working in Morocco for new members on our team. Here is the unit test working in France but not in Morocco ‌This was an opportunity for me to learn how to correctly handle dates and times for international software. In this article, I’ll introduce time zone issues and share some rules to follow. Quick introduction to time zones As the earth is kind of a sphere, the sun is rising in Japan while it's setting in America. If everyone used global time, let’s say 09:00 would be sunrise in Japan, but for Americans it would be sunset. Not very handy. To make sure the time is coordinated with the sun for everyone, it’s necessary to shift from global time according to your location. As a result, the globe gets split into time zones and each gets an offset. This offset is a number of minutes to add to the global time to get your time zone time. It can be either positive or negative. Standard world time zones — Illustration by Hellerick from Wikimedia Commons Global time is called UTC, it stands for Coordinated Universal Time. You may also heard about GMT which is a time zone without any offset. For instance, when it’s 10:50 at UTC, it’s also  03:50 in San Francisco with a -0700 offset and 18:50 in Beijing with a +0800 offset. Yet, the shift isn’t only in whole hours: Nepal's offset is +0545. You can check it out on Wikipedia. In addition of this offset, which comes with the time zone, some countries also shift clocks twice a year. DST or summer time adds one hour to the time zone offset before summer. Then, the clock is reset to the time zone time in winter. The goal is to make the daytime longer. The most common way to figure out a time zone is by using the IANA Time Zone Database. You end up with a string such as Europe/Paris following the Area/City pattern. Besides, Microsoft maintains its own Microsoft Time Zone Database used on its operating systems. But this can cause issues when running cross-platform .NET Core apps. IANA is still the go-to. The Microsoft database isn't updated often, it contains less history, fairly curious time zone names (eg: Romantic Standard Time) and is error prone. For example, try to not mix up Arab , Arabic and Arabian Standard Time. For more details on each database and their differences, check out this article. One last thing: there are plenty of ways to write a date. Fortunately, the ISO 8601 specification sets a common rule for date formatting. November 11, 2018 at 12:51:43 AM (in a time zone at UTC+00:00) 2018-11-05T12:51:43Z

http://damianfallon.blogspot.com/2020/04/how-to-handle-timezones-and-synchronize_63.html

The Terms of Bcnex Crowd Sale

We have been familiar with a new technology called cryptocurrency. What is a cryptocurrency? cryptocurrency is a digital currency exchange, which uses good security features to avoid counterfeit and to save financial transactions. So, cryptocurrency can be transacted online. It differs with the cast since cryptocurrency is more safety than cast money.  Cryptocurrency is designed by solving mathematics questions based on the cryptography.  The word cryptocurrency is much related to Bcnex.

Although it is still odd for some people around the world, Bcnex becomes so crowd in the economy sector, especially for many investors. Bcnex is the new generation of cryptocurrency exchange. In Vietnam, Bcnex is working to make the first and best-regulated crypto exchange. Ngo Hoang Quyen whose name is not strange for the cryptocurrency community establishes it.

Through Bcnex, access to blockchain and cryptocurrency technology is easier and accessible. It is created to be very quick, accurate and flexible with 2.000.000 orders per second. Moreover, through the Bcnex project, we can buy, exchange and trade the blockchain-based tokens in Vietnam that would be expanded to other countries in the rest of the world.

Bcnex project is operated with a native token called BCNX in which there are 200.000.000 BCNX issued, and its quantity will never raise. It is an ERC223 standard token released on the Ethereumblockchain. BCNX is used for trading, buying, selling another cryptocurrency on Bcnex. It also can be used for transactions payment.

By purchasing BCNX from Bcnex means that we will be bound with the terms incorporated by reference. However, before we jump into terms list, let’s talk about the sum of token number in Bcnex gather together with its exchange rate.

Bcnex Crowd Sale

After we know about cryptocurrency, now we jump to the most eminent part of this article that will discuss the sale stages of the BCNEX project. If we talk about bones, we will meet at 4 sessions. They are ETH, BTC, USDT, and BCN. For each session, we can invest in using the currency and price, which they offer. Also, we can buy some amount of bonus coins. The goal of these 4 sessions is to support transaction pairs in Bcnex. The crowd sale of bones is live and there are some differences in each other.

Substantively, the tokens sale is showing us a very good sign that it is already collected 37, 74 Hard Cap. It leads investors’ attraction to this project. Then, the team project decides to raise the sum of Hard Cap from $15.000.000 up to $30.000.000.

Here, come to look them on the tables, and for the explanation is in below:

No Sessions Number of Token Price 1 ETH 15.000.000 0,25 $

  2 BTC 50.000.000 0,324 $ 3 USDT 34.000.000 0,35 $

  4 BCN 1.000.000 0,45 $

  The success of the blockchain mission relies on reception that mentions Ethereum is considered as the largest benefactor is true. It is known that Bcnex has been collected 2,535.62 ETH so far and still counting. This session means Ethereum, which means that we can buy Bcnex tokens.

According to the table above, ETH has sold 15.000.000 tokens and 0, 25$ for the price. Its price depends on the stages. It means that day by day, the price will increase. Therefore, if we want to invest a project at a bargain price, it is better to invest now, so the rate has not improved yet.

Meanwhile, according to the chart above, ETH has begun to inexperienced. Moment candlestick reacts from $ 230 by increasing the volume of purchases and sales.

1. BTC Session

The second option for a major investor is the BTC session. It is expected to be more competitive than the previous session, ETH. It is written on the table that there is a 50.000.000 BTC token number with its price is 0, 29$.  It starts from May 18, 2019, 09:30:00 GMT+7 up to June 27, 2019, 14:00:00 GMT+7.

Nowadays there is a sale of BCNX coins for Bitcoin. It is already sold 45% of the coins (22, 741, and 848 of 50.000.000). The price of 1 BCNX is 0, 00003385 BTC. In this time, the team project is trying to collect 672 BTC. However, this session will also end soon and the next investments in this project will be not as cheap as the previous. On the one side, although this growth of Bitcoin, the investors support this project and give investment in it.

2. USDT Session

The third options for major investors USDT session. According to the table above, there is 34.000.000 USDT token number with the exchange rate is $0, 35 – $0, 45. It starts from June 2, 2019, 09:30:00 GMT+7 – 27 June 2019, 14:00:00 GMT+7.

3. BCN Session

The last option for the significant investor is BCN session. It is mentioned on the table that there is 1.000.000 token number with the exchange rate is $0, 45 which started on June 17, 2019, 09:30:00 until June 27, 2019, 14:00:00 GMT+7.

Bcnex Terms

If we are interested in buying it, please read these term lists carefully! And if we are doubtful about the terms, let’s forget our will to get it.

1. Registration

Registration is the very first list that we must consider since if we have not registered yet, we cannot access anything from the Bcnex Platform. The one that is allowed to have Bcnex account is 18 years old or older which means that we are considered to understand, accept the terms in trading our digital assets and submit the laws that apply for us. Moreover, when we have registered on Bcnex account, we will be obliged to check a box which indicated that you have read and accepted all the terms of the Bcnex Privacy Policy.

The users also should know that one Bcnex account is pointed for a single user only. In registration, Bcnex account will ask some detailed information about us such as email address with its password. Similar to another account, the password is not allowed to be shared with other people.

2. Accessibility

When the users have had Bcnex account, we will get some access to use a number of exchange wallets for aiming of storing, transferring, managing, tracking and trading digital assets. Bcnex will provide the users with an informational and order-matching exchange service by showing prices for digital assets being sold on the Bcnex Platform at any given time.  They will inform us that the orders are in accordance with the instruction we received on the Bcnex Platform.

Step we have to do first is to transfer funds starting time. This time, we must ensure that the Bcnex exchange wallets support our digital assets. Also, we are not permitted to store unsupported digital assets in our wallets since it may cause in the forfeiture of our digital assets. Meanwhile for the payments, if we agree to pay to Bcnex automatically, the trading fees are set out on the Bcnex website.

The second thing we must consider is we must comply with any instructions from Bcnex account about exactly how to use the Bcnex Services and must not do everything that interferes the normal operation of the Bcnex Services.

If Bcnex finds an invalid transaction that caused by a failure of the system or any other causes, Bcnex has a right to correct this erroneous since it will be beneficial for Bnex or any user. Where there is such an error, any user actually will get more digital assets that the amount that such user should have got. If it has happened, the Bcnex will correct it and the users should return the digital assets in question. The users recognize that Bcnex will not assume responsibilities of any losses caused by such an invalid transaction.

3. Representations and Warranties

Every time we put an order on the Bcnex Platform, we will represent and warrant to Bcnex that:

We have the capability and authority to sell on the Bcnex Platform. It means that we are including as a legal owner of the digital assets or cryptocurrencies that being sold and they are free from any charge or encumbrance.

Here, we have already relied on information given on the Bcnex Platform in making orders and are not allowed to rely on any representation from another person without Bcnex limitation. In short, you have image and warrant that we are only permitted to store or trade funds and digital assets in the Bcnex Platform.

Moreover, we will not allow using Bcnex Service in violation of any applicable laws in which without posting information on the Bcnex Platform that is either illegal or unlawful.

You can join to this below social media to participate in. Visit the website to get more detailed information about Bcnexcrowd sale and its terms:

Ann Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5111223.0

Website: https://www.bcnex.net/?lang=en

White Paper: https://www.bcnex.net/BCNEX_WP_ENG.html

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Annual pace of US inflation set to hit new five-year high

A busy day of economic news for the US awaits on Wednesday, starting with the February updates on retail spending and consumer inflation. The main event follows when the Federal Reserve publishes its monetary policy statement and revised economic forecasts. Shortly after, all eyes will be on Fed Chair Janet Yellen’s press conference.

US: Consumer Price Index (1230 GMT) Consumer inflation at the headline level is expected to continue rising today. On the surface, this looks like another reason for the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates. But core inflation will probably paint a less-compelling reason to squeeze monetary policy.

Most attention, however, will be focused on the headline measure, which receives the lion’s share of coverage in the media. By that standard, economists expect the annual rate of the consumer price index to inch up to 2.7% through February, a new five-year high. As recently as last July, CPI was running at a below 1% year-over-year rate.

The trend supports a hawkish reading for monetary policy, but core CPI (less food and energy) is on track to dip slightly to a 2.2% rate, based on Econoday.com’s consensus forecast. That’s a sign that inflationary pressure, although firming, isn’t threatening to spin out of control in the near term.

The implied forecast via the Treasury market (as of March 14) also points to steady inflation at the 2% mark, matching the Fed’s target.

In any case, the market’s expecting that the central bank will lift the Fed funds target rate today in the Federal Open Market Committee announcement scheduled for 1800 GMT. Fed funds futures yesterday (March 14) were pricing in a 95% probability of a rate hike. Short of a dramatic and unexpected collapse in today’s CPI trend, the die appears to be cast for a new round of policy tightening.

US: Retail Sales (1230 GMT) If core inflation doesn’t provide a clear and compelling excuse for higher rates at the moment, maybe today’s consumer spending report will pick up the slack for the hawks.

The year-on-year sales trend has been accelerating in recent months, reaching a five-year high of 5.6% in January. The pace is expected to ease slightly in today’s update for February, according to the econometric forecast from TradingEconomics.com. Nonetheless, the projected 5.5% annual increase still looks strong relative to the last several years.

Support for a bullish forecast can also be found in recent metrics on the mood in the consumer sector. The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index increased to a 15-year high last month. “Overall, consumers expect the economy to continue expanding in the months ahead,” said the group’s director of economic indicators.

The University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment Index has also been posting strong readings lately. “The Sentiment Index has been higher during the past three months than any time since March 2004,” a spokesman noted in late-February. But there’s a catch due to the “unprecedented partisan divergence” in the survey numbers, “with Democrats expecting recession and Republicans expecting robust growth.”

Hard data isn’t partisan, however. Assuming that today’s numbers live up to expectations for the annual comparison of 5%-plus growth, the news will provide the Fed with another rationale for raising interest rates today.

US: Fed FOMC Statement and Economic Forecasts (1800 GMT) and Fed Chair Press Conference (1830 GMT) Economists expect that the Fed will nudge up its target policy rate today to 0.875% from the current 0.50%-to-0.75%, based on Econoday.com’s consensus forecast. The prediction implies that the central bank’s quarterly economic forecasts will tick higher too.

The Fed’s current GDP estimate for 2017 is 2.1%, based on the last round of quarterly forecasts (published in December). That was slightly higher than the 2.0% outlook in the previous release. Will today’s update push the outlook for US economic growth this year higher still?

That’s a reasonable guess, based on this month’s revised data from the OECD. Last week the organisation lifted its US growth forecast for 2017 to 2.4% and 2.8% for next year. Using those numbers as a gauge suggests that the Fed will up its guesstimates today.

Another key number to watch in today’s forecasts: the central bank’s expectations for inflation. Headline inflation held steady at 1.9% in the estimate for this year back in December – unchanged from the September figures. But in the wake of modestly higher inflation readings in updates so far this year, it’s likely that the Fed will lift its expectations for pricing pressure today.

The main event is deciding how or if the changes will alter expectations for monetary policy. By some accounts, the Fed is already on track to raise interest several times this year. In the wake of last week’s strong jobs report, “I think the risk of four rate hikes [this year] went up dramatically,” said Diane Swonk of DS Economics.

Will a firmer set of growth and inflation forecasts confirm that outlook? Perhaps, although the first source for deciding what comes next resides with Fed Chair Janet Yellen, who may drop some fresh clues in the press conference that follows today’s rollout of data.

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When you develop some software you may not think about timezones at first. Unless you live in a country which has to deal with multiple time zones, such as the United States or Russia. I recently came across an issue involving timezones. There were some unit tests making assertions about dates that used to work at my office in France but weren't working in Morocco for new members on our team. Here is the unit test working in France but not in Morocco ‌This was an opportunity for me to learn how to correctly handle dates and times for international software. In this article, I’ll introduce time zone issues and share some rules to follow. Quick introduction to time zones As the earth is kind of a sphere, the sun is rising in Japan while it's setting in America. If everyone used global time, let’s say 09:00 would be sunrise in Japan, but for Americans it would be sunset. Not very handy. To make sure the time is coordinated with the sun for everyone, it’s necessary to shift from global time according to your location. As a result, the globe gets split into time zones and each gets an offset. This offset is a number of minutes to add to the global time to get your time zone time. It can be either positive or negative. Standard world time zones — Illustration by Hellerick from Wikimedia Commons Global time is called UTC, it stands for Coordinated Universal Time. You may also heard about GMT which is a time zone without any offset. For instance, when it’s 10:50 at UTC, it’s also  03:50 in San Francisco with a -0700 offset and 18:50 in Beijing with a +0800 offset. Yet, the shift isn’t only in whole hours: Nepal's offset is +0545. You can check it out on Wikipedia. In addition of this offset, which comes with the time zone, some countries also shift clocks twice a year. DST or summer time adds one hour to the time zone offset before summer. Then, the clock is reset to the time zone time in winter. The goal is to make the daytime longer. The most common way to figure out a time zone is by using the IANA Time Zone Database. You end up with a string such as Europe/Paris following the Area/City pattern. Besides, Microsoft maintains its own Microsoft Time Zone Database used on its operating systems. But this can cause issues when running cross-platform .NET Core apps. IANA is still the go-to. The Microsoft database isn't updated often, it contains less history, fairly curious time zone names (eg: Romantic Standard Time) and is error prone. For example, try to not mix up Arab , Arabic and Arabian Standard Time. For more details on each database and their differences, check out this article. One last thing: there are plenty of ways to write a date. Fortunately, the ISO 8601 specification sets a common rule for date formatting. November 11, 2018 at 12:51:43 AM (in a time zone at UTC+00:00) 2018-11-05T12:51:43Z

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When you develop some software you may not think about timezones at first. Unless you live in a country which has to deal with multiple time zones, such as the United States or Russia. I recently came across an issue involving timezones. There were some unit tests making assertions about dates that used to work at my office in France but weren't working in Morocco for new members on our team. Here is the unit test working in France but not in Morocco ‌This was an opportunity for me to learn how to correctly handle dates and times for international software. In this article, I’ll introduce time zone issues and share some rules to follow. Quick introduction to time zones As the earth is kind of a sphere, the sun is rising in Japan while it's setting in America. If everyone used global time, let’s say 09:00 would be sunrise in Japan, but for Americans it would be sunset. Not very handy. To make sure the time is coordinated with the sun for everyone, it’s necessary to shift from global time according to your location. As a result, the globe gets split into time zones and each gets an offset. This offset is a number of minutes to add to the global time to get your time zone time. It can be either positive or negative. Standard world time zones — Illustration by Hellerick from Wikimedia Commons Global time is called UTC, it stands for Coordinated Universal Time. You may also heard about GMT which is a time zone without any offset. For instance, when it’s 10:50 at UTC, it’s also  03:50 in San Francisco with a -0700 offset and 18:50 in Beijing with a +0800 offset. Yet, the shift isn’t only in whole hours: Nepal's offset is +0545. You can check it out on Wikipedia. In addition of this offset, which comes with the time zone, some countries also shift clocks twice a year. DST or summer time adds one hour to the time zone offset before summer. Then, the clock is reset to the time zone time in winter. The goal is to make the daytime longer. The most common way to figure out a time zone is by using the IANA Time Zone Database. You end up with a string such as Europe/Paris following the Area/City pattern. Besides, Microsoft maintains its own Microsoft Time Zone Database used on its operating systems. But this can cause issues when running cross-platform .NET Core apps. IANA is still the go-to. The Microsoft database isn't updated often, it contains less history, fairly curious time zone names (eg: Romantic Standard Time) and is error prone. For example, try to not mix up Arab , Arabic and Arabian Standard Time. For more details on each database and their differences, check out this article. One last thing: there are plenty of ways to write a date. Fortunately, the ISO 8601 specification sets a common rule for date formatting. November 11, 2018 at 12:51:43 AM (in a time zone at UTC+00:00) 2018-11-05T12:51:43Z

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