com presentations: Engineering Off-site lightning talk: mongo-lightning.xml slides/time/4-3.xml slides/time/Flag_of_Iceland.png sli des/time/am-pm.xml slides/time/be-a-good-citizen.xml sl ides/time/book.xml slides/time/date-parse-from-format3. xml slides/time/gmt-is-not-what-you-think-it-is.xml slide s/time/iceland.xml slides/time/jira.png slides/time/jir a.xml slides/time/left-blank.xml slides/time/month-day- do-it-right.xml slides/time/notes.png slid

diff --git a/mongo-lightning.xml b/mongo-lightning.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<presentation css="10gen-strict.css">
+<topic>Localization and Internationalization</topic>
+<title>Lightning!!</title>
+<event>Engineering Off-site</event>
+<location>Mt. Vernon, NJ, US</location>
+<date>October 22th, 2014</date>
+<speaker>Derick Rethans</speaker>
+<email>[email protected]</email>
+<url>http://derickrethans.nl/talks.html</url>
+<joindin></joindin>
+<twitter>derickr</twitter>
+
+<slide>slides/time/left-blank.xml</slide>
+<slide>slides/time/am-pm.xml</slide>
+<slide>slides/time/4-3.xml</slide>
+<slide>slides/time/date-parse-from-format3.xml</slide>
+<slide>slides/time/month-day-do-it-right.xml</slide>
+<slide>slides/time/jira.xml</slide>
+<slide>slides/time/gmt-is-not-what-you-think-it-is.xml</slide>
+<slide>slides/time/iceland.xml</slide>
+
+<slide>slides/time/problems-timezones.xml</slide>
+<slide>slides/time/problems-dst.xml</slide>
+<slide>slides/time/problems-dst2.xml</slide>
+<slide>slides/time/problems-dst3.xml</slide>
+<slide>slides/time/problems-timezone-abbr.xml</slide>
+
+<slide>slides/time/be-a-good-citizen.xml</slide>
+</presentation>
diff --git a/slides/time/4-3.xml b/slides/time/4-3.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<slide>
+
+	<div effect="fade-out">
+		<break lines="10"/>
+		<image filename="notes.png"/>
+	</div>
+	<div effect="fade-in-out">
+		<break lines="10"/>
+		<blurb class="large" align="center">5/7</blurb>
+	</div>
+	<div effect="fade-in-out">
+		<blurb class="xlarge" align="center">3/12</blurb>
+	</div>
+	<div effect="fade-in-out">
+		<break lines="8"/>
+		<blurb class="xlarge" align="center">10/8</blurb>
+	</div>
+	<div effect="fade-in-out">
+		<break lines="8"/>
+		<blurb class="xlarge" align="center">10/8</blurb>
+	</div>
+	<div effect="fade-in stop">
+		<break lines="8"/>
+		<blurb class="xlarge" align="center">10/8 *= 1 ¼?*</blurb>
+	</div>
+</slide>
diff --git a/slides/time/Flag_of_Iceland.png b/slides/time/Flag_of_Iceland.png
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diff --git a/slides/time/am-pm.xml b/slides/time/am-pm.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<slide>
+
+	<div effect="fade-out">
+		<break lines="10"/>
+		<image filename="notes.png"/>
+	</div>
+	<div effect="fade-in-out">
+		<break lines="10"/>
+		<blurb class="large" align="center">12:23 PM</blurb>
+		<blurb class="large" align="center">3:01 PM</blurb>
+	</div>
+	<div effect="fade-in-out">
+		<blurb class="xlarge" align="center">Which is first?</blurb>
+	</div>
+	<div effect="fade-in-out">
+		<break lines="8"/>
+		<blurb class="xlarge" align="center">Is 12 PM noon or midnight?</blurb>
+	</div>
+	<div effect="fade-in">
+		<break lines="8"/>
+		<blurb class="xlarge" align="center">Is this pascal‽</blurb>
+	</div>
+</slide>
diff --git a/slides/time/be-a-good-citizen.xml b/slides/time/be-a-good-citizen.xml
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+<slide>
+<title>Conclusion</title>
+
+<div effect="fade-in">
+<list><bullet>Be explicit</bullet></list>
+</div>
+<div effect="fade-in">
+<list><bullet>Be explicit: Don't use ambiguous date formats, "October 4th" is perfectly fine, "10/4" is stupid.</bullet></list>
+</div>
+<div effect="fade-in">
+<list><bullet>Be explicit: Not AM and PM, but 24-hour clock ("military time")</bullet></list>
+</div>
+<div effect="fade-in">
+<list><bullet>Be explicit: Don't use "GMT" for "UTC" ("London") time, we are at BST right now</bullet></list>
+</div>
+<div effect="fade-in">
+<list><bullet>Be explicit: Use UTC offsets for timezones (UTC-0400), or just specify the location (like America/New_York)</bullet></list>
+</div>
+</slide>
diff --git a/slides/time/book.xml b/slides/time/book.xml
index 957c869..da8e2bf 100644
--- a/slides/time/book.xml
+++ b/slides/time/book.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
 <slide>
-	<title>php|architect's guide to Date/Time handling</title>
 
 	<image align="center" filename="cover-picture.jpg" pdf-scale="0.5" y-offset="1" />
 </slide>
diff --git a/slides/time/date-parse-from-format3.xml b/slides/time/date-parse-from-format3.xml
index 8f69007..8e2d010 100644
--- a/slides/time/date-parse-from-format3.xml
+++ b/slides/time/date-parse-from-format3.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
 <slide>
-	<title>Parsing Dates</title>
 
 <break lines="5"/>
 	<div effect="fade-out">
@@ -9,7 +8,6 @@
 	<div effect="fade-in-out stop">
 		<blurb class="xlarge" align="center">|cc0000|08|/|00cc00|03|/|0000cc|10|</blurb>
 		<blurb class="xlarge" align="center">|cc0000|Aug| |00cc00|3rd|, |0000cc|2010|</blurb>
-		<blurb align="center">(default)</blurb>
 	</div>
 	<div effect="fade-in-out">
 		<blurb class="xlarge" align="center">|cc0000|08|/|00cc00|03|/|0000cc|10|</blurb>
diff --git a/slides/time/gmt-is-not-what-you-think-it-is.xml b/slides/time/gmt-is-not-what-you-think-it-is.xml
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+<slide>
+
+<div effect="fade-out">
+<break lines="4"/>
+<blurb class="xlarge" align="center">GMT is not what you think it is</blurb>
+</div>
+
+<div effect="fade-in-out">
+<break lines="2"/>
+<blurb class="xlarge" align="center">*GMT* is an astronomical unit, related to UT(1)</blurb>
+</div>
+<div effect="fade-in-out">
+<break lines="10"/>
+<blurb class="large" align="center">*GMT* is *also* the timezone abbreviation meaning *G*reenwich *M*ean*t*ime</blurb>
+</div>
+<div effect="fade-in">
+<break lines="5"/>
+<blurb class="xlarge" align="center">*GMT* is |ff0000|not| the timezone that London is at</blurb>
+</div>
+</slide>
diff --git a/slides/time/iceland.xml b/slides/time/iceland.xml
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+<slide>
+<image filename="Flag_of_Iceland.png"/>
+</slide>
diff --git a/slides/time/jira.png b/slides/time/jira.png
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diff --git a/slides/time/jira.xml b/slides/time/jira.xml
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+<slide>
+
+<break lines="15"/>
+<image filename="jira.png"/>
+
+<div effect="fade-in">
+<blurb align="center" class="xlarge">
+*Jira*
+</blurb>
+</div>
+</slide>
diff --git a/slides/time/left-blank.xml b/slides/time/left-blank.xml
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+++ b/slides/time/left-blank.xml
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+<slide>
+<break lines="3"/>
+<blurb class="xlarge" align="center">This slide is intentionally left blank</blurb>
+</slide>
diff --git a/slides/time/month-day-do-it-right.xml b/slides/time/month-day-do-it-right.xml
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+++ b/slides/time/month-day-do-it-right.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<slide>
+
+<break lines="5"/>
+	<div effect="fade-out">
+		<blurb class="xlarge" align="center">Oct 8th</blurb>
+	</div>
+	<div effect="fade-in-out">
+		<blurb class="xlarge" align="center">October 8th</blurb>
+	</div>
+	<div effect="fade-in-out">
+		<blurb class="xlarge" align="center">8th October</blurb>
+	</div>
+	<div effect="fade-in-out">
+		<blurb class="xlarge" align="center">2014-10-08</blurb>
+	</div>
+	<div effect="fade-in">
+		<blurb class="xlarge" align="center">|ff0000|---10/8---|</blurb>
+	</div>
+</slide>
diff --git a/slides/time/notes.png b/slides/time/notes.png
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diff --git a/slides/time/problems-dst.xml b/slides/time/problems-dst.xml
index b254ff1..13fe5f9 100644
--- a/slides/time/problems-dst.xml
+++ b/slides/time/problems-dst.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
 <slide>
-	<title>Problems</title>
-	<subtitle>Daylight Savings Time</subtitle>
+	<title>Daylight Savings Time</title>
 
 	<list>
 		<bullet>Artificial time offset to save "daylight"</bullet>
diff --git a/slides/time/problems-dst2.xml b/slides/time/problems-dst2.xml
index 4252df4..7f876c5 100644
--- a/slides/time/problems-dst2.xml
+++ b/slides/time/problems-dst2.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
 <slide>
-	<title>Problems</title>
-	<subtitle>Daylight Savings Time (Indiana)</subtitle>
+	<title>Daylight Savings Time (Indiana)</title>
 
 	<image align="right" filename="indiana.gif" pdf-scale="0.25"/>
 	<blurb>(Currently) Three different rules:</blurb>
diff --git a/slides/time/problems-dst3.xml b/slides/time/problems-dst3.xml
index 418b826..5d313ff 100644
--- a/slides/time/problems-dst3.xml
+++ b/slides/time/problems-dst3.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
 <slide>
-	<title>Problems</title>
-	<subtitle>Other problems with DST and timezones</subtitle>
+	<title>Other problems with DST and timezones</title>
 
 	<image align="center" filename="dst-strange.png"/>
 
@@ -10,7 +9,6 @@
 		<bullet>|55ff55|Brazil| changes change-over dates every year</bullet>
 		<bullet>Lord Howe Island (Australia) moves only half an hour between DST and non-DST</bullet>
 		<bullet>|ff5555|Nepal| uses an quarter of an hour offsets</bullet>
-		<bullet>And this continues for a while...</bullet>
 	</list>
 </slide>
 
diff --git a/slides/time/problems-timezones.xml b/slides/time/problems-timezones.xml
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--- a/slides/time/problems-timezones.xml
+++ b/slides/time/problems-timezones.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
 <slide>
-	<title>Problems</title>
-	<subtitle>Timezones</subtitle>
+	<title>Timezone ... issues</title>
 
 	<image align="center" filename="zones.png" pdf-scale="0.8" />