Thomas 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 filed of worldwide timezone 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 time zone database tzdata.
References
- ^ http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Shanks,_Thomas Astrodatabank
- ^ The American Atlas, ACS publications, San Diego, 1978
- ^ The International Atlas, ACS publications, San Diego, 1985