Python Ireland Monthly Meetup

It's with excitement that we announce another edition of our Remote Monthly MeetUp!

This will be an ONLINE event and do not require registration to join. Once you click 'Attend', a link with the webinar information will be available to you. Don't forget to type the password for the webinar.

In case Zoom is not your thing (we get it, Linux/UNIX users), we will also broadcast this juicy event on Python Ireland's Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/pythonireland). So no one misses out on the fun!

Actually, since you're there already... I reckon you better subscribe, no?! ;)

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Agenda for the night:

6:45 pm - Opening / General Python news;
7 pm TALK: A Day Has Only 24±1 Hours
7:30 pm - Q & A;
7:45 pm - Lightning talks;
8:30 pm - If no further, closing.

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THE TALK:
On the last Sunday of October you may get “one more hour of sleep” but as well may spend much more time debugging code dealing with the time zones, daylight saving time shifts and datetime stuff in general.

We'll look at a few pitfalls you may encounter when working with datetimes in Python. We'll dissect the pytz library, explain why it contains over 500 individual time zones while focusing on the Europe/Dublin entry. We'll find the reason why pytz is not part of the standard Python, why it gets updated so often and why even that won't solve all your problems. Do you know what happens if the EU stops DST switching?

Two centuries of short-sighted propaganda and long-term chaos in thirty minutes. Maybe that will make you want to avoid time zones in your code altogether!

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THE TALKER:
Miroslav Šedivý (@eumiro) is a greedy polyglot • a data & open source rhymer • a python3 charmer • a sustainable urbanist • a unicode collector • a wandering openstreetmapper and a hjkl juggler.

He will be revisiting with an Irish Special edition the talk previously given at EuroPython 2019 and at Python conferences all around Europe and Asia.

To FOLLOW:
We will host host some awesome people giving their Lightning Talks!
If you want to submit your, please do so in here https://bit.ly/3g8w0xh.

So go grab your drink and join us on another great Wednesday chat!