From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 20 07:41:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA11899 for current-outgoing; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 07:41:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA11878 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 07:41:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA19352; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 10:40:42 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 10:40:42 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9611201540.AA19352@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Can anyone explain...? In-Reply-To: <199611192314.AAA10772@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <9611191833.AA10264@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199611192314.AAA10772@uriah.heep.sax.de> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > Btw., i noticed that my timezone name has changed from MET to CET. Is > this official policy now? As I mentioned in the commit message for the data files, MET is history because it never made any sense (it was sort of a bizarre half-translation of the German `MEZ'); all English-language references that the timezone maintainers were able to locate used the phrase ``Central European Time'', so the abbreviation was changed to match. -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