[fzeindl]

I once digged into this database out of curiosity and found incredibly detailed research on many edge cases. Like time zones in Germany being temporarily aligned to Moscow during soviet occupancy after World War Two.

One particular commenter stood out to me, so I looked him up because I was interested which kind of people spend so much time correcting timezone information.

Turns out he was an astrologer and wanted his astrology-program to work perfectly correct.

I find it funny that we have to thank astrology for the correct calculations in our banking software :).

[Mountain_Skies]

On the other hand, it was also astrologers that made copyright claims on the database and caused it to become unavailable to the world for a short period of time.

[jventura]

It were not astrologers, it was a company that creates astrology software.. Don't mix people with companies, they are different things! One is there definitely for the money, the other may or may not..

[vintagedave]

I didn’t see that in the blog post!

I was curious and found more info here: https://www.computerworld.com/article/1548822/astrolabe-with...