[Wylug-discuss] Unix History: Tea Time

Peter Corlett abuse at cabal.org.uk
Wed Jul 30 15:36:25 BST 2003


Dave Fisher  <davef at gbdirect.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 03:22:26PM +0100, ALLEN, David wrote:
>> At the risk of appearing stupid, what on earth are you talking about!!?!!
> The ancient and much-loved "at" command can take date and time parameters
> in many forms, including (somewhat surprisingly) user-friendly time
> specifications like "midnight" and "teatime" (4 pm).

Peering through 1993 CVS archives for BSD suggests it may have been written
for BSD by Thomas Koenig. He is currently posting to Usenet as
<Thomas.Koenig at ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de>, so perhaps you could drop him a line
and ask?

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