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REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
- Subject: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
- From: jra at baylink.com (Jay Ashworth)
- Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 19:06:29 -0400 (EDT)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu>
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 11:32:53 -0400, Jay Ashworth said:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> > > - use the posix-right timezone files
> >
> > What; not posixly-correct?
>
> I wonder how many of us are old enough to remember what that environment
> variable *used* to be called before political correctness became
> important.
There are so many layers in that observation that I'm lost.
Was posixly-correct a purposeful pun on politically correct, and I've
missed it all these decades?
Or was it named something else earlier than that, which wasn't itself
politically correct?
Cheers,
-- jra
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