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.-)
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-befor...
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