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Darius Kazemi

Was reading specification documents, as I do, and came across this "literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database" article by @judell

blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/23/a

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Thomas Sibley

@darius @judell It's such a good collection. I like it so much that I once made fortune(6) database files of its commentary, and also a SQLite database for broader exploration.

github.com/tsibley/tz/commits/

Chris Radcliff

@darius @judell I will always boost and upvote love for the Olson database. Date and time math was once very important to me, and tz was a gift from the time gods themselves.

Mark Eichin

@darius
Neat - by reducing it to *just* the lore and legend, the writer makes the whole fascinating nightmare more broadly accessible.
@judell

Jon Udell

@darius The part about Gaza is especially poignant right now.

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