Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 22:41:10 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Call for national time locales Message-ID: <199611292141.WAA27354@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19961129210839.se@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> from Stefan Esser at "Nov 29, 96 09:08:39 pm"
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As Stefan Esser wrote: > > I still think it is bogus. If they say "3-letter", then > > "Fr " isn't allowable, neither is " Fr". > > Well, I think that "Mon", "Die", "Mit", "Don", "Fre", "Sam", "Son" > are as good as the two letter abbreviations, and while I do not have > any calendar with the 3 letter abbreviation at hand (but one, that > uses a single character throughout :), I think you will easily find > the 3 character form if you only look for it. To my defense (the original timedef was mine), i thought that two- letter abbreviations are quite more common in German, that's why i've been using them in the first place. However, if Posix mandates them to be three-letter, and given the uglyness of the comma problem, i'm all for changing them into three-letter abbrevs as well. -- 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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