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Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

Falsehoods

• There are always 24 hours in a day.
• February is always 28 days long.
• Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).

sgdan

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream
import java.io.File
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8
import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream
import java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream

fun gzip(content: String): ByteArray {
    val bos = ByteArrayOutputStream()
    GZIPOutputStream(bos).bufferedWriter(UTF_8).use { it.write(content) }
    return bos.toByteArray()