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Never work with children, animals or time: nailing the nanosecond

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Getting the date and time stamp of log entries to use rounded microseconds, and how to ensure a log extract uses the current time zone throughout.

May 26, 2025 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Picking dates and times

How does SwiftUI let the user enter dates and times in its Date Picker? The answer is without seconds, which are only allowed in watchOS. And it gets worse.

July 21, 2024 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s App Store is disconcerting (and how to do dates in software)

Just when did the App Store install that update? A quick look at how to get date calculation wrong, and why you should only put Marzipan on a cake that’s been properly baked.

November 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: Dates, Steppers, and parsing log entries

How T2M2 analyses Sierra’s log to assess how backups have been working. With insights into using NSDate, NSStepper, and more.

May 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Setting date and time

I have got lost, and ended up trying to set these in the Language & Region pane. Help!

December 1, 2015 Macs, Technology

Movable feasts

Calendars, Mathematica, and the Mac: a curious but productive union.

July 6, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology
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