Volunteer-Maintained tzdata Keeps Time for Billions of Devices

A widely shared story highlighted by the Long Now Foundation reveals that nearly every phone and computer relies on a plain-text timezone database (tzdata), maintained for nearly 20 years by a UCLA professor.

2026-10-16 ~ 2026-10-17 · 2 related posts

• One volunteer maintains the time zone file behind 4 billion phones — danbri · 2026-10-16
• One plain-text file runs time on every device; UCLA prof maintains tzdata as volunteer since 2005 — PMinervini · 2026-10-17