FSF Award Winner Paul Eggert on Time Zone Database (TZDB)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-04-04 09:20:20 UTC
- Modified: 2022-04-04 09:20:20 UTC
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Summary: This talk was uploaded almost a week ago. "Paul is a senior lecturer in the UCLA Computer Science Dept., teaching mostly in the areas of software development and programming languages. He has contributed to several free software projects, including Autoconf, Automake, Bison, GCC, the GNU C Library, GNU Coreutils, GNU Diff, GNU Emacs, GNU Grep, GNU M4, GNU Patch, GNU Tar, Gnulib, Gzip, and RCS. He has worked on the Time Zone Database since 1992, and currently serves as the Internet Engineering Steering Group’s Primary Coordinator for TZDB."
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