From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 20 08:23:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA14458 for current-outgoing; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 08:23:41 -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 IAA14385 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 08:22:34 -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 RAA16084 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 17:22:23 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id RAA06095 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 17:22:22 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id QAA16618 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 16:59:41 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611201559.QAA16618@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Can anyone explain...? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 16:59:41 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9611201540.AA19352@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Nov 20, 96 10:40:42 am" 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: > > 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. At least, this breaks the tradition (not only of FreeBSD). Except IBM's AIX (which uses NFT == Norway-France-Time :), every other Unix around calls it MET now. I think the official translation for this was ``Mediterranean Time''. This might look a little senseless, too, but it's IMHO a bad move to break with a traditional name once people are used to it. I vote for keeping the previous name. -- 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. ;-)