Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 16:59:41 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Can anyone explain...? Message-ID: <199611201559.QAA16618@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9611201540.AA19352@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Nov 20, 96 10:40:42 am"
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As Garrett Wollman wrote: > > Btw., i noticed that my timezone name has changed from MET to CET. Is > > this official policy now? > > As I mentioned in the commit message for the data files, MET is > history because it never made any sense (it was sort of a bizarre > half-translation of the German `MEZ'); all English-language references > that the timezone maintainers were able to locate used the phrase > ``Central European Time'', so the abbreviation was changed to match. At least, this breaks the tradition (not only of FreeBSD). Except IBM's AIX (which uses NFT == Norway-France-Time :), every other Unix around calls it MET now. I think the official translation for this was ``Mediterranean Time''. This might look a little senseless, too, but it's IMHO a bad move to break with a traditional name once people are used to it. I vote for keeping the previous name. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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