From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 24 01:45:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA06657 for current-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 01:45:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA06647 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 01:45:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA17542; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:45:13 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA17778; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:45:12 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id KAA10256; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:42:37 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611240942.KAA10256@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Can anyone explain...? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:42:37 +0100 (MET) Cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9611231832.AA04161@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Nov 23, 96 01:32:44 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Garrett Wollman wrote: > > 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. What's wrong with a symlink for the MET pointing to CET? Too many people here know the timezone by the name `MET' already, and will blindly use that name. No longer supporting it will cause a support nightmare, however ``technically correct'' your decision for CET might look at the first glance. Remeber, we aren't alone in a room where we can pick up whatever decision we want. We've got a user base, and a history track. I care more for our userbase than for the decision of some maintainer of an external software package. Again: we should support historically used timezone abbreviations at least for a transitional period. There's precedence for such actions e.g. with the ``technically more correct'' names for the ISO-8859 locales. -- 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. ;-)