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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>
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Subject: Re: Call for national time locales
In-Reply-To: <199611301548.QAA02263@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Nov 30, 96 04:48:01 pm"
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J Wunsch writes:
> 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.  Well, perhaps one could start with just two elements
> for each row of this matrix: ``C'' (alias English) language, and the
> native language(s) that are spoken in the appropriate zone.  But as
> for MET/CET, the latter covers already quite a bunch of languages.
> French, German, Danish, Norwegian, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Polish,
> Hungarian, Serbian, Croatian come to mind.  You see the problem?

My intention was to derive it from the locale.

Greg