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It seems that it does not matter what timezone is on the server as long as you have the time set right for the current timezone, know the timezone of the datetime columns that you store, and are aware of the issues with daylight savings time.

On the other hand if you have control of the timezones of the servers you work with then you can have everything set to UTC internally and never worry about timezones and DST.

Here are some notes I collected of how to work with timezones as a form of cheatsheet for myself and others which might influence what timezone the person will choose for his/her server and how he/she will store date and time.

MySQL Timezone Cheatsheet

@staltz
staltz / introrx.md
Last active August 10, 2025 21:23
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
@kyledrake
kyledrake / ferengi-plan.txt
Last active July 23, 2025 20:52
How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds on your website using Nginx
# The blog post that started it all: https://neocities.org/blog/the-fcc-is-now-rate-limited
#
# Current known FCC address ranges:
# https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7716915
#
# Confirm/locate FCC IP ranges with this: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-165-135-0-0-1/pft
#
# In your nginx.conf:
location / {
var dom = Bloop.dom;
var Box = Bloop.createClass({
getInitialState: function() {
return { number: 0 };
},
updateNumber: function() {
this.state.number++;
},
$results = DB::select("
SELECT zipcode, city, state, lat, lng, distance_in_mi
FROM (
SELECT zipcode, city, state, lat, lng, r,
(
3963.17
* ACOS( COS( RADIANS( latpoint ) )
* COS( RADIANS( lat ) )
* COS( RADIANS( longpoint ) - RADIANS( lng ) )
+ SIN( RADIANS( latpoint ) )
@brwnll
brwnll / form_macro.php
Last active September 7, 2020 09:46
Laravel 4 form inputs for Number and Telephone
<?php
/***
* If you prefer automatic updates or using packages, this is available as a composer
* package: https://github.com/smalldogs/html5inputs
*
* Thank you to @silentcoast for the adding the support of non-valued attributes (such as `required`)
*
* This file allows you to use the other 11 HTML elements the same way as text, email, and URL.
*
* 1. Create the folder /app/misc, or use your preferred directory
@jasny
jasny / bootstrap-em.less
Last active January 5, 2020 15:36
Use em or rem font-size in Bootstrap 3
/**
* Use em or rem font-size in Bootstrap 3
*/
@font-size-root: 14px;
@font-unit: 0rem; // Pick em or rem here
// Convert all variables to em
@gruber
gruber / Liberal Regex Pattern for Web URLs
Last active April 22, 2025 16:56
Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching Web URLs
The regex patterns in this gist are intended only to match web URLs -- http,
https, and naked domains like "example.com". For a pattern that attempts to
match all URLs, regardless of protocol, see: https://gist.github.com/gruber/249502
# Single-line version:
(?i)\b((?:https?:(?:/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.](?:com|net|org|edu|gov|mil|aero|asia|biz|cat|coop|info|int|jobs|mobi|museum|name|post|pro|tel|travel|xxx|ac|ad|ae|af|ag|ai|al|am|an|ao|aq|ar|as|at|au|aw|ax|az|ba|bb|bd|be|bf|bg|bh|bi|bj|bm|bn|bo|br|bs|bt|bv|bw|by|bz|ca|cc|cd|cf|cg|ch|ci|ck|cl|cm|cn|co|cr|cs|cu|cv|cx|cy|cz|dd|de|dj|dk|dm|do|dz|ec|ee|eg|eh|er|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fk|fm|fo|fr|ga|gb|gd|ge|gf|gg|gh|gi|gl|gm|gn|gp|gq|gr|gs|gt|gu|gw|gy|hk|hm|hn|hr|ht|hu|id|ie|il|im|in|io|iq|ir|is|it|je|jm|jo|jp|ke|kg|kh|ki|km|kn|kp|kr|kw|ky|kz|la|lb|lc|li|lk|lr|ls|lt|lu|lv|ly|ma|mc|md|me|mg|mh|mk|ml|mm|mn|mo|mp|mq|mr|ms|mt|mu|mv|mw|mx|my|mz|na|nc|ne|nf|ng|ni|nl|no|np|nr|nu|nz|om|pa|pe|pf|pg|ph|pk|pl|pm|pn|pr|ps|pt|pw|py|qa|re|ro|rs|ru|rw|sa|sb|sc|sd|se|sg|sh|si|s