This article explains why storing dates as strings is inefficient, compares MySQL DATETIME and TIMESTAMP—including timezone handling and performance trade‑offs—shows practical SQL examples, adds PostgreSQL equivalents, and offers concise recommendations for selecting the optimal time storage format.
This article explains GMT, UTC, time zones, local time, and daylight‑saving time, outlines their effects on game server and client logic, presents three common handling strategies, lists typical bugs, and provides a detailed testing checklist for reliable time‑related features.
These recent ECMAScript proposals—Error.isError for reliable error type checking, RegExp.escape to safely escape user‑provided strings, Uint8Array methods for seamless Base64 and hex conversions, and Temporal.TimeZone.prototype.equals for robust time‑zone comparison—aim to simplify development across browsers and Node.js by addressing long‑standing inconsistencies.
Despite powering billions of devices, critical components like the TZ time‑zone database and SQLite are maintained by just a handful of volunteers, and the article reveals how this fragile reliance could cause massive disruptions if those small teams were to disappear.
This guide explains InfluxDB's architecture, data model, CRUD commands, measurement handling, retention policies, query syntax, time‑zone considerations, and service management, providing a comprehensive tutorial for developers working with time‑series databases.
This article explains why time‑zone consistency is crucial in games, illustrates common pitfalls with UTC and local times—including daylight‑saving effects—and provides best‑practice guidelines for storing timestamps in UTC, preserving zone information, and displaying user‑friendly times to avoid data errors and user confusion.
This article provides a comprehensive reference for Moment.js, covering how to add or subtract time, set moments to the start or end of units, format dates with tokens, handle localization, compute relative times, and convert moments to native values, all illustrated with concrete code examples.
