Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 08:50:23 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD in the "news" again?!?!? Message-ID: <19970910085023.GB04052@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199709100539.XAA23831@obie.softweyr.ml.org>; from Wes Peters on Sep 9, 1997 23:39:14 -0600 References: <199709100539.XAA23831@obie.softweyr.ml.org>
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As Wes Peters wrote: > > The BeOS implementation of time zone support is based on code > > from the FreeBSD system (http://www.freebsd.org). This > > implementation has three parts to it: > > > > [...] > > Nice of them to admit it, eh? ;^) We should be fair to mention that it's not our invention either. It's the public domain `tz' package. (This makes us dependant on them as well, unfortunately, since they have been changing timezone names to whatever meets their taste, without much respect to well-established de-facto standards. This put me into a CEST timezone, after living in MET DST for quite a number of years. All protests didn't help, these people are living in the impression they are the only correct, and history doesn't count for them. Fortunately for our Russian friends, they at least took back their terrible idea of a Moscow timezone called MOST, where people used to use MSK all the time) -- 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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