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Paul Eggert

Paul Eggert is an American computer scientist at UCLA who has edited the IANA tz time zone database since 2005 and contributed to GNU projects including grep, diff, and Bash.

Paul Eggert is a computer scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles who has served as editor of the Why Timezone Rules Are So Complex (tzdata) since 2005. He designed the database's Area/Location naming convention (such as America/Los_Angeles) that replaced older abbreviation-based schemes, and he triages the steady stream of proposed rule changes that arrive on the public tz mailing list. Beyond tzdata, Eggert is a long-time GNU Project contributor with maintainership roles in projects including GNU grep, GNU diff, and Bash, and he has co-authored academic work on software engineering, version control, and reproducibility. In 2011 he was named alongside Arthur David Olson as a defendant in the Astrolabe v. Olson copyright lawsuit, which was withdrawn the following year after intervention by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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