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Archive for July 30th, 2025

Not just for Delphi, but any environment: Why You Should Use NowUTC Instead of Now in Delphi: A Quick Guide

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/30

The video is from a while back, but very relevant and shows in Delphi what I have been advocating to software developers for a very long time:

  • when timestamping use UTC
  • when storing the timestamp store both the UTC timestamp and optionally the UTC timezone/offset and optionally daylight saving indicator of the region it was recorded from

This holds for any environment, so .NET / C#, Python, Delphi and many others as well:

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From @forrestbrazeal: Boilerplate code through ChatGPT or Google slows development teams down similar to technical debt

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/30

Via [Wayback/Archive] Angie Jones on Twitter: “Chart by Forrest Brazeal” I found the original at [Wayback/Archive] Forrest Brazeal on Twitter: “Just saying. “ Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, Software Development, Technical Debt | Leave a Comment »