Credits

Helpful resources

timeanddate.com wishes to advise that these are resources available on the Internet:

• zoneinfo - The Time Zone Database- maintained by Arthur David Olson, Paul Eggert and hundreds of volunteers, for most of time zone information used by this site.
• The Calendar FAQ - maintained by Claus Tøndering, excellent guide to Calendars.
• The CIA World Fact-book.
• Wikipedia.
• Nasa Visible Earth.
• iStockphoto - an online member-generated image and design community.

These resources have been very helpful during the development and maintenance of this site.

People who have helped

• Thousands of people have helped with suggestions, corrections and ideas of what is needed on the site. Many thanks to everyone who has been supportive and helpful.
• Thanks to everyone who reported errors, daylight saving time (DST) and time zone changes.
• Thanks to those who linked, wrote or told friends about this site.
• Thanks to those who advertise on the site - to keep it alive.
• Thanks for the positive feedback sent to us via email.
• Thanks to everyone else who helped in one way or another.

Software used developing the site

Most of the web pages are created on-the-fly using scripts. Four different programming languages are used, as they are each beneficial for the development and maintenance of this site.

• C (GCC/GNU Compiler Collection)
• PHP 5
• Java
• Perl

Other software used for this website:

• Linux as the primary development platform.
• Apache 2 with PHP as the development webserver.
• Emacs - a very powerful editor used for writing the programs and HTML-code.
• Eclipse - a very powerful IDE.
• GD - Graphics library.
• CSE HTML validator.
• Paint Shop Pro, xpaint and xv for some graphics.
• Analog 6.0 - for website statistics.

The site runs on dedicated servers with FreeBSD and Apache webserver. It is hosted by Pair Networks.
DNS hosting is provided by DNS Made Easy.