Date and Time Fundamentals in .NET and SQL Server - Simpliv

About this Course
Teaching Approach

No fluff, no ranting, no beating the air. I esteem your time. The course material is succinct, yet comprehensive. All the important concepts are covered. Particularly important topics are covered in-depth. For absolute beginners, I offer my help on Skype absolutely free, if requested.

Take this course, and you will be satisfied.

Build a solid foundation of working with Date and Time with this course

Almost all the software works with date and time in one form or another. Some programs, of course, need to work with date and time more than other. However, date and time hide many pitfalls even in very simple scenarios. We all know that security and logging are regular aspects of almost any program. There is a wise phrase that sounds like: “Developers recall about security when it is too late.” The same can be said about date and time. Most developers don’t even imagine how many bugs are hiding behind the simple face of date and time. Those bugs are sitting in programs and waiting for their moment to blow up your production code causing very unfortunate repercussions. That’s why working with date and time is the full-fledged and very important aspect of software development.

Have you watched magnificent enlightening TV Shows by BBC? This course in some parts is like those BBC shows, because you’ll learn many interesting surprising facts. Besides, being familiar with peculiarities of working with date and time, you can write much more reliable and maintainable applications.

Content and Overview

This course is aimed at all kind of developers. It provides solid theoretical base reinforced by practical material.

We start with basics of date and time. I’ll show you some real cases when bugs related to date and time caused unpleasant consequences, event deaths of people. You’ll learn why the hell Gregorian calendar was introduced, why the 5th of October 1582 doesn’t exist at all. And did you know that actually a minute can last more than 60 seconds? Yes, you heard that, a minute can last more than 60 seconds. You’ll learn what is UTC, GMT, what is the difference between them and how time gets synchronized between computers all over the world. And by the way, what is time at all, how humanity measures it? After that, you’ll be introduced to the concept of time zones, you’ll learn about different standards that regulate date and time formatting. You’ll learn what is Epoch Time and Unix Time. Finally, you’ll understand the difference between different date-time scopes and perspectives.
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