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The Live Coding Team: dave.slusher, ctomasi, josh.nerius
In this episode, Dave Slusher, Josh Nerius and Chuck Tomasi examine using Moment.js as a tool for putting some coherence in the Travel Tracker application where every single flight brings in: local time at origin, local time at the destination, instance local time and UTC. These can be and often are four different timezones! Can we use Moment.js to help?
Video Index
00:00 - Already in progress because of technical issues
01:40 - Laying out the problem and how to incorporate Moment.js as a solution
04:50 - What is in the data package?
10:30 - The system has a Timezone picker!
15:30 - Our scoped app would rely on changing global preferences
17:30 - Moment.js has an API to enumerate timezones!
19:30 - Importing Moment.js vis Script Include
23:30 - Testing Moment from Scripts Background
29:00 - Experimenting with instantiating times in various timezones
47:00 - Determining that Moment.js has what we need, I need to understand the API better
49:30 - Josh mentions TimezoneDB
51:50 - Final beer thoughts
Useful Resources
Corrections
Further work was performed, and MomentJS has been a champ. Success!
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