Arthur David Olson
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Arthur David Olson is a computer programmer best known for creating and long maintaining the IANA time zone database, a critical global resource for timekeeping in computing systems.
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer programmer
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human → software engineer → |
| associatedWith |
IANA
→
POSIX time zone implementations → |
| collaboratedWith | Paul Eggert → |
| contributedTo |
IANA time zone database
→
surface form:
IANA time zone database project
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| dataFormat | zoneinfo binary time zone format → |
| developed | original tz database code and data structure → |
| employer |
National Institutes of Health
→
surface form:
U.S. National Institutes of Health
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| field |
computer science
→
time zone data management → timekeeping in computing → |
| impact | critical global resource for timekeeping in computing systems → |
| influenced |
time zone handling in Unix-like operating systems
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time zone support in many programming languages → |
| inspired | time zone libraries in many operating systems → |
| knownFor |
IANA time zone database
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IANA time zone database →
surface form:
tz database
IANA time zone database →
surface form:
zoneinfo time zone data
|
| nationality | American → |
| notableWork |
design of the tz database format
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long-term maintenance of the tz database → |
| occupation |
computer programmer
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software engineer → |
| recognition | widely recognized in the open-source community for time zone work → |
| role | primary maintainer of the tz database for many years → |
| softwareProject |
tzcode
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tzdata → |
| standardizedBy | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority → |
| usedBy |
major Unix-like operating systems
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many Linux distributions → various programming language runtimes → |
| workedOn | software at the U.S. National Institutes of Health → |
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