Paul Eggert
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Paul Eggert is a computer scientist and software developer best known for his long-term stewardship and maintenance of the IANA time zone database and contributions to GNU software.
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| instanceOf |
computer scientist
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human → software developer → |
| affiliation |
UCLA Computer Science Department
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| areaOfExpertise |
POSIX time semantics
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Unix utilities → software portability → time zones → timekeeping in computing → |
| associatedWith |
Free Software Foundation
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GNU Project → IANA → |
| contributedTo |
GNU Project
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POSIX standardization (time and date behavior) → |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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| employer |
University of California, Los Angeles
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| fieldOfWork |
computer science
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free software → software engineering → |
| knownFor |
contributions to GNU software
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maintenance of the IANA time zone database → stewardship of the IANA time zone database → |
| notableRole |
maintainer of GNU Coreutils
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maintainer of GNU Diffutils → maintainer of GNU Gnulib → maintainer of GNU Tar → maintainer of the IANA time zone database → |
| notableWork |
GNU Autoconf
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GNU Coreutils → GNU Diffutils → GNU Emacs (contributions) → GNU Gawk → GNU Gnulib → GNU Grep → GNU M4 → GNU Tar → IANA time zone database → |
| occupation |
computer scientist
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software engineer → university professor → |
| programmingLanguage |
C
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C++ → Shell → |
| teaches |
computer science
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| writesAbout |
software portability issues
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time zone handling in software → |
Referenced by (2)
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Arthur David Olson
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collaboratedWith |
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IANA time zone database
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originallyMaintainedBy |