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Date:      Sat, 23 Nov 1996 20:09:37 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Adam David <adam@veda.is>
To:        wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Can anyone explain...?
Message-ID:  <199611232009.UAA18813@veda.is>
In-Reply-To: <9611231832.AA04161@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Nov 23, 96 01:32:44 pm"

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> > It would be worth keeping MET for backward compatibility?
> > CET does make better sense though as the standard name.
> 
> That doesn't make any sense.  A timezone only has a single set of
> abbreviations.  Unless you wanted to create an alternative set of
> timezone data files, the only difference in which was that some
> European countries have a different abbreviation?  Gack.

OK sorry for the detour, I had wrongly assumed that several names could
point to the same zone sector. CET is still the obvious choice, but then
how shall any sense be made of "MET"?

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Adam David <adam@veda.is>





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