TWIL vol.6 (GitHub, 2FA... and lunar standard time?)
This week I learned that GitHub wasn't requiring 2FA yet (but will soon), and the moon may need its own timezones (to the dismay of devs everywhere).
Date-Time Handling
How do I add seconds, minutes, or hours to a DateTime structure in Erlang?
Ruby gives you 12 ways to do anything. Erlang makes it tough to find one. Awhile back, I was trying to add time to an existing DateTime value, but I couldn't find a function (such as in the Calendar module) that allowed me to manipulate a DateTime value directly. Here's how I ended up doing it.
A few thoughts on date/time handling in Erlang
Handling date and times is a thorn in every experienced developer's side. If you haven't had the pleasure yet, you will. ;) Coming off a week of standardizing some datetimes across an Erlang app, here's a few personal thoughts.
A few tips for handling and manipulating timezones
Some issues transcend programming language, equally tripping up developers
across the board...
* Regular expressions (try validating an email address...
[https://stackoverflow.com/q/201323/301857])
* SQL injection [https://www.owasp.org/index.php/SQL_Injection] (NEVER run a
user's input through your database without sanitizing it)
* Using floating types for