Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 08:37:37 +0100 (MET) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD current users) Subject: Re: Call for national time locales Message-ID: <199611300737.IAA20315@freebie.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199611292349.AAA27861@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Nov 30, 96 00:49:33 am"
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J Wunsch writes: > As [?KOI8-R?] wrote: > >> No, POSIX never mandates it, POSIX mandates real civil life >> abbreviations only. > > Well, so i'd say: either (unpadded) two-letter abbrevs (preferred > option), or use the three-letter ones Stefan has been posting. The > padded two-letter abbreviations look really ugly either way. If POSIX intends to follow normal national usage, they should be the standard abbreviations, and they're two letters. IMO anything else is just plain incorrect, no matter what POSIX says. Since it appears that they are in agreement with this opinion, I don't see that there's much of a problem: we need the two-letter abbreviations. On that subject, let me come back to harp on time zone names. If the days of the week are in German, why is the time zone this deprecated MET thing? Should be MEZ. Greg
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