Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 10:40:42 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Can anyone explain...? Message-ID: <9611201540.AA19352@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199611192314.AAA10772@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <9611191833.AA10264@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199611192314.AAA10772@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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<<On Wed, 20 Nov 1996 00:14:44 +0100 (MET), J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> said: > 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. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick
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