A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database

[bensummers]

http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/23/a-literary-appreciation-of-the-olsonzoneinfotz-database/

[diiq]

This has made my day. The perfect balance of absurd patience and dedication to accuracy with a playful, irreverent attitude. Lovely.

[pronoiac]

(I was surprised I couldn't find the sources installed on Ubuntu.)

Edit: I searched for some of the contents, & found other places with copies - http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org/svn/tags/rel-0.1.1/data/ http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/sr...

Further edit: removing self-link.

[Hexstream]

Hehe:

"It’s all deliciously absurd. And according to Paul Eggert, Ben Franklin is having the last laugh:

From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin in his whimsical essay “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light” published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26). Not everyone is happy with the results. "

[mahmud]

Excellent reporting and scholarship.