TIL: There's a guy who is responsible for maintaining the database of time zones which computers and operating systems use to configure locales. His name is Paul Eggert. And he's a computer scientist based in California.

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  • tz

    Time zone database and code

    You can download the actual database from here which is maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority and Wikipedia has an article about the project and its evolution.

  • OpenSSL

    TLS/SSL and crypto library

    It wasn't made by a single guy. OpenSSL was forked from SSLeay that was made by 2 guys (Eric Andrew Young and Tim Hudson) and they maintained it for a few years. There seem to be 3 developers (Richard Levitte, Stephen Henson, Andy Polyakov) who have contributed for 23 years straight according to the contribution graphs.

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