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Abstract

Telling Time Internationally

Bill Hall - MLM Associates

Intended Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Internationalization and Localization Engineers, QA Engineers
Session Level: Intermediate

You need a program that accesses an accurate source of time, you would like to see it in a format and language that you are accustomed to, and it would be nice if the results reflected local calendar use. It would also be handy if you could get your Windows computer clock updated as well. Enter WWVCSharp, a program written in C# that accesses the National Institute of Standard and Technologies' very accurate clock over the Internet and renders the time in more than one hundred formats and in as many as six calendars depending on your language and location. Along the way, we will cover Calendars from Hebrew and Hijri to Thai Buddhist, Julian and modified Julian Days, a bit of socket programming, calling Win32 API's directly to update the system time, and managing a list of providers with XML.


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