Petter Salminen
Petter is an consultant in Stockholm, who has a wide range of experience in programming, and many different languages. He strives to build high quality systems, and together with his co-workers become better every day at what they do - creating systems to help people.
Session
It's About Time is set out to be an overview of time programming, to enlighten about the particular pitfalls and general problem space that we face when programming around the context of time.
We will look at some key points:
- Serialisation and the representation of time
- Accessibility when presenting date/time on the web
- Good practices for API design (OpenAPI specification)
- Timezones and Daylight savings
- Special Relativity, and how this can make things even weirder
- What I would consider to be best practices when writing code in python.
Hopefully, put purely speculative I hope that my talk may be inspiring in getting people to have a peek into the pandora's box which is time - in order to help people understand that maybe everything is not always as easy as we assume them to be.
This talk has been presented once at the university of KTH at its full length (not recorded), and a much cut down version during PyCon 2022 as a lightning talk. But I am excited for the opportunity and the great honour of present the full version.