design.md

Learning objectives

• Know how to use time in C#.
• Know how to get the current time.
• Know how to perform arithmetic on times.
• Know the difference between local time and UTC.

Out of scope

• custom time zones
• Noda Time
• We are not exercising student's ability to code a cross-platform solution.

Concepts

• time: Know how to use DateTime when time-of-day is important. Understand the difference between local time and Universal Coordinated Time). Understand the role of CultureInfo in parsing times. Understand arithmetic with DateTimes.
• timezone: Know about time zones and their ids. Be familiar with cross-platform issues. Know how to convert dates and times between time zones. Know how to detect daylight saving time.
• cross-platform: know how to have different code paths (selected at run-time) for Linux, Windows and Mac

Prerequisites

• datetime
• switch-statements
• strings
• if-statements