[181338] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Sun Jun 21 02:06:18 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Jun 2015 19:06:29 -0400."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 02:06:08 -0400
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 19:06:29 -0400, Jay Ashworth said:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
> > 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?
I'll let the perpetrator, Richard Stallman, explain. It was a kerfluffle
regarding whether /bin/du should use units of 1,000 or 1024.
http://karmak.org/archive/2003/01/12-14-99.epl.html
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