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Devoxx: Fixing time zones for fun twenty programming puzzles to master internationalization by Martijn

Ever cursed at time zones or mangled text encodings? Martijn turned these daily irritations into i18n-puzzles.com, a March 2025 coding event where 300+ devs tackled 20 internationalization challenges – from UTF-8 treasure hunts to decoding right-to-left financial scams and juggling parallel time-zone databases.

Now the code is in, and our talk dives into the sharpest solutions, language quirks, and clever tricks across Java, JavaScript, and more, all while unpacking the nitty-gritty of Time Zones and Unicode.

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