Building Calendar Apps Is Technically Complex Due to Time Zone Relativity
Tim Campos · Woven.com: Ex Facebook CIO Looking to Re-Invent How We Setup Meetings · Aug 2, 2020 · at 13:56
Tim Campos, former Facebook CIO and CEO of Woven, discusses the unexpected technical hurdles in building calendar software.
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“To build a calendar app is extremely difficult, and it requires really top-notch engineers. The most, in fact, this is a bit of a surprise for me, the most difficult aspect of this is the nature of time itself. It is complicated.”
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