[181328] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sat Jun 20 19:07:16 2015
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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 19:06:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks@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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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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