der.hans: GNU date, an extended tour

der.hans presented "GNU date, an extended tour" to the Phoenix Linux Users Group on Sep 12, 2019

GNU date, the pocket multi-tool for time manipulation.
It slices. It dices.
It travels all of time.
It's epochical.

The presentation will show:

date and time formatting
date and time manipulation
creating random dates
time zones
fun with flags
the beginning of time
why to cashout in early January 2038

Biography:
der.hans is a Free Software, technology and entrepreneurial veteran.

He's chairman of the Phoenix Linux User Group (PLUG), BoF organizer for the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE), and founder of the Free Software Stammtisch and Stammtisch Job Nights.

Currently, he's a Customer Data Engineer at Object Rocket. Most likely anything he says publicly was not approved by $dayjob.

https://floss.social/@FLOX_advocate
https://mastodon.social/@lufthans

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