Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:15:12 +1000 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: K.J.Bosschaart@wtb.tue.nl, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD v3.3-RELEASE CEST or CET Message-ID: <19991015111512.27562@mojave.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19991014094209.A12529@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>; from Karel Joop Bosschaart on Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 09:42:10AM %2B0200 References: <01BF14DA.70F89AB0.support@junglenote.com> <3803634A.F268D3A9@scc.nl> <19991014094209.A12529@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>
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On Thursday, 14 October 1999 at 9:42:10 +0200, Karel Joop Bosschaart wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 06:35:22PM +0200, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >> Dan Larsson wrote: >>> >>> I noticed that the Central European Standard Time (CEST) abbrevation is shortend to CET >>> in the 3.3-RELEASE version of FreeBSD. >> >> CET is Central European Time. I don't think there's a "Standard" in it. >> CEST is CET with daylight savings in effect. But I may be wrong here :-) > > I think you're right, S=Summer :-). I suspect that a lot of these abbreviations were conjured up by somebody who had no idea of the truth. If anybody *knows* that a specific abbreviation is wrong (and can point to evidence like a standards body to back it up), please contact me. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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