Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 16:49:23 +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: <199612011549.QAA14162@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199612010857.JAA12381@freebie.lemis.de> from Greg Lehey at "Dec 1, 96 09:57:34 am"
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As Greg Lehey wrote: > >> 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. > > > > Yes, but this requires much more complexity than we've got now. For > > each timezone name, you need a matrix of foreign language > > translations. > My intention was to derive it from the locale. You still didn't get it though: the timezone and the current locale are two entirely different things. There are locales like ru_RU or en_US that span quite a bunch of timezones, and there is OTOH the potential desire of somebody using a de_DE locale e.g. when he's on vacation or whatever else in California. Also, while most people prefer to get their local time, in particular many programmers aren't that happy about localization (i.e., translation) at all, and are used to work in the en_US locale all the time. As i said, it's quite more complex. The current format of the tz database isn't ready for supporting zone name localization (though i think the tz maintainers become used to that idea). -- 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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