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: Anyway. The string metatable is global, and can be set inside the sandbox, yes?
gollark: ```luaif (f1 == p1 and f2 == p2) or (f2 == p1 and f1 == p2) then term.clear() term.setCursorPos(1, 1) print "Accepted. Moving potatOS files. This computer will now boot to CraftOS." for _, filename in pairs(files) do local newpath = ".potatOS-old-" .. filename pcall(fs.delete, newpath) pcall(fs.move, filename, newpath) end print "Press any key to continue." os.pullEvent "key" os.reboot() else```
gollark: It TOTALLY DOESN'T, okay?
gollark: It totally doesn't just enable hidden mode.#
gollark: Yep!

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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