[tz] Anniversary
Brooks Harris
brooks at edlmax.com
Mon Dec 13 17:46:46 UTC 2021
Twas the Xmas before a New Years leap-second and the timekeepers were
nervous....
Happy Holidays,
-Brooks
On 2021-12-13 11:39 AM, Brian Inglis via tz wrote:
> On 2021-12-09 08:27, arthurdavidolson at gmail.com (Arthur David
> Olson) wrote:
>> Discussion at an online meeting today made me realize that, alas, we
>> missed
>> the recent 35th anniversary of the start of the time zone mailing list.
>>
>> Put 2026-11-25 on your calendars now.-)
>>
>> https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/1986-November/008946.html
>
> Noticing the date 1986-11-25, it might be a good time to lighten the
> mood, in the spirit of the season and the group, by suggesting and
> requesting late anniversary submissions by filkers and literary
> posters based on:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Visit_from_St._Nicholas
>
> and pastiches and parodies like:
>
> http://www.appleseeds.org/twas-night_vers.htm
>
> perhaps titled "A Visit from St. Arthur", starting:
>
> "Twas a month before Xmas, ..."
>
> hopefully including mentions of other early participants, possibly as
> reindeer ;^>
>
> At the latter link, for inspiration perhaps look at:
>
> "Tis the Month Before Christmas"
>
> "The Net Before Christmas"
>
> "Twas the Night Before Y2K"
>
> or:
>
> http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00227.html
> "Twas the Night Before Implementation"
>
> http://c4vct.com/kym/humor/cybrnite.htm
> "Twas The Cyber Night Before Christmas"
>
> https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/security-essentials/twas-the-night-before-infosec
>
>
> http://suburbanbanshee.net/filk/compulnk.html
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc968
> "Twas the night before start-up"
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for_Comments
>
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