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On Thu, 7 Dec 2017, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> On Thursday,  7 December 2017 at 11:02:51 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 11:01:51 +1100 (EST), Dave Horsfall wrote:
>
> Since we're being pedantic, note that this should be AEDT.
> EST is ambiguous, but in general refers to the east coast of
> the USA.
>
>>> Serious question: is "FLAVOUR" accepted as an alias, or
>>> does the rest of the world have to put up with American
>>> spelling?
>
> Think of it as a keyword.  No national origin necessary.
>
> We really have better things to think of.

Well... and using American spellings is the custom, due to the project 
having started in the US.  For those who believe that a stated standard 
is better than no standard at all:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style-guidelines.html