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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Predicate Object
instanceOf computer scientist
human
software developer
affiliation UCLA Computer Science Department
areaOfExpertise POSIX time semantics
Unix utilities
software portability
time zones
timekeeping in computing
associatedWith Free Software Foundation
GNU Project
IANA
contributedTo GNU Project
POSIX standardization (time and date behavior)
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
employer University of California, Los Angeles
fieldOfWork computer science
free software
software engineering
knownFor contributions to GNU software
maintenance of the IANA time zone database
stewardship of the IANA time zone database
notableRole maintainer of GNU Coreutils
maintainer of GNU Diffutils
maintainer of GNU Gnulib
maintainer of GNU Tar
maintainer of the IANA time zone database
notableWork GNU Autoconf
GNU Coreutils
GNU Diffutils
GNU Emacs (contributions)
GNU Gawk
GNU Gnulib
GNU Grep
GNU M4
GNU Tar
IANA time zone database
occupation computer scientist
software engineer
university professor
programmingLanguage C
C++
Shell
teaches computer science
writesAbout software portability issues
time zone handling in software

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