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The International Macintosh Users Group presents:

            Telling Time Internationally

Group:      International Macintosh Users Group (IMUG)
              (A Forum for Multilingual / Multiscript Computing)
Date:       June 19, 2003, 7-9 p.m.
Speaker:    Bill Hall (MLM Associates, Inc.)
Topic:      Telling Time Internationally
Location:   Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino
              Take Saratoga/Sunnyvale exit off 280, turn South into
              Cupertino, turn left onto Mariani Avenue, left into
              Infinite Loop.
Admission:  $4, free for IMUG members
Contact:    Roger Sherman, (650) 859-5981
              roger.sherman@sri.com

Developers as a group would rather not think about the problems of 
writing code that supports world wide use. Yet, some of the most 
interesting problems arise here. In this talk, we show how to build a 
simple program that introduces .NET date, time, and calendar handling 
capabilities in combination with a range of interesting technologies. 
Specifically, we show how to write a program in .NET that uses the 
Internet to access the National Institute of Standard and Technologies' 
very accurate clock and renders the time and date in as many formats as 
are available for any selected .NET culture. Along the way, calendars 
from Hebrew and Hijri to Japanese Era and Thai Buddhist are encountered, 
Julian and modified Julian Days are explained, a bit of socket 
programming and direct operating system calls are explored, and how XML 
can help in managing a list of service providers.

This presentation was previously given at the 23rd Internationalization 
& Unicode Conference in Prague, Czech Republic (March 2003).

Since 2000, Bill Hall has worked as a Globalization Consultant for 
Convey Software, Inc., Internationalization Director at SimulTrans, L. 
L. C., and more recently for his own company.  His main duties include 
the analysis and repair of client and web software for customers who are 
interested in creating a worldwide presence.  He has also been involved 
in delivering training material on internationalization of various 
platforms including Win32 and WinCE, Microsoft .NET, and on languages 
such as C++, CSharp, and Java.

Bill had been a software and systems developer having held positions in 
the industry that included OEM ports of early versions of Windows to 
diverse hardware at AT&T Information Systems, as well as taking complex 
software programs through internationalization and localization cycles 
and developing graphics software for network management systems at
Novell.

In previous lives, Bill has been a military aviator, commercial civilian 
pilot, and flight instructor, an associate editor of Mathematical 
Reviews, and a university professor of mathematics. He has published 65 
papers on mathematics, teaching, computer programming, and 
internationalization including several recent ones on .NET. He talks 
frequently at international meetings including Unicode. The publication 
list can be found at http://www.mlmassociates.cc/newpubs.htm.

He has five university degrees including a Ph. D. in areas such as 
electrical engineering, computer science, and mathematics from both 
American and English Universities.

Phone: 408-241-6983

Email: billhall@mlmassoc.com

Websites: http://www.mlmassociates.cc & http://www.csharpi18n.net

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