Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 13:32:44 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Adam David <adam@veda.is> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can anyone explain...? Message-ID: <9611231832.AA04161@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199611230307.DAA01233@veda.is> References: <9611201540.AA19352@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199611201559.QAA16618@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199611230307.DAA01233@veda.is>
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<<On Sat, 23 Nov 1996 03:07:39 GMT, Adam David <adam@veda.is> said: >> I vote for keeping the previous name. > It would be worth keeping MET for backward compatibility? > CET does make better sense though as the standard name. That doesn't make any sense. A timezone only has a single set of abbreviations. Unless you wanted to create an alternative set of timezone data files, the only difference in which was that some European countries have a different abbreviation? Gack. So long as I'm maintaining the timezone database I want to minimize our divergence from the master source, and I am strongly opposed to changes such as you suggest which would represent a nightmare in thirty different zones. I have in my mailbox right now a 2500-line patch from Paul Eggert implementing changes on every single continent (including Antarctica!); I won't want this to become more of a hassle. -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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