Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 19:06:29 -0400, Jay Ashworth said:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu>

> > I wonder how many of us are old enough to remember what that environment
> > variable *used* to be called before political correctness became
> > important.
>
> There are so many layers in that observation that I'm lost.
>
> Was posixly-correct a purposeful pun on politically correct, and I've
> missed it all these decades?
>
> Or was it named something else earlier than that, which wasn't itself
> politically correct?

I'll let the perpetrator, Richard Stallman, explain. It was a kerfluffle
regarding whether /bin/du should use units of 1,000 or 1024.

http://karmak.org/archive/2003/01/12-14-99.epl.html

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