Helpful resources
These are resources available on the net, which has helped very much during the development and maintenance of this site.- 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
People who have helped
- Thousands of people who have helped with suggestions, corrections and ideas of what is needed on the site. Many thanks to all those who have helped.
- Thanks to all people that have reported errors, DST and time zone changes
- Thanks to all those that have linked, written or told friends about this site
- Thanks to those who advertise on the site - to keep it alive
- Thanks for the positive feedback given by mail
- All the other people who have helped
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 good at different things. Other software used includes:- Linux as the primary development platform
- Apache 2 with PHP as development webserver
- Emacs - a very powerful editor, used 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 web-site statistics
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