Thomas G. Shanks

Thomas G. Shanks (born April 9, 1942 in Lima, Ohio[1]) is an American computer programmer, author, and time zone history researcher.

Work

While working for a San Diego based astrological computing company as programmer and research director, Shanks did extensive research in the field of worldwide time zone and daylight saving time history. He published the results of this research in the two volumes The American Atlas[2] and The International Atlas.[3] Shanks' published data are quoted frequently in the public domain IANA time zone database.

gollark: <@237328509234708481> You know the artist fuzzy search thing? What are you meant to do with that second return value (best starting position or whatever)?
gollark: Yes, which is decent and not just "yay I made a GUI".
gollark: I consider OSes decent if they do something other than just implement a new interface for launching programs and add a lock screen, and also are free of fake loading bars.
gollark: I'm considering using it for slightly-less-evil purposes and modifying YAFSS to implement nice stuff like symlinks and pseudofiles.
gollark: Basically, it's a completely pointless virus which sandboxes your stuff using YAFSS and has *three* backdoors for remote access.

References
  1. "Shanks, Thomas". Astro-Databank.
  2. The American Atlas: US latitudes and longitudes, time changes, and time zones, San Diego 1978, ACS publications
  3. The International Atlas: World latitudes, longitudes, and time changes, San Diego 1985, ACS publications


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