From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 29 12:21:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA04900 for current-outgoing; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 12:21:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from Octopussy.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Octopussy.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.166.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA04895 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 12:21:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (annexr3-9.slip.Uni-Koeln.DE) by Octopussy.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE with SMTP id AA17524 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Fri, 29 Nov 1996 21:21:26 +0100 Received: (from se@localhost) by x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (8.8.3/8.6.9) id VAA20044; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 21:08:39 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 21:08:39 +0100 From: se@FreeBSD.org (Stefan Esser) To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: ache@nagual.ru ("=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=@octopussy (Andrey A. Chernov)"), current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Call for national time locales References: <199611291945.WAA00363@nagual.ru> <3331.849298054@critter.tfs.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.52 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3331.849298054@critter.tfs.com>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Nov 29, 1996 21:07:34 +0100 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Nov 29, phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) wrote: > >POSIX wants 3-letter abbreviation here, but in real life > >Germans and Russians use 2-letters abbreviations. > > >Final space is more bogus than initial one in cases like > >Fr , 29 Nov 1006 20:29:37 (ARPA-like), > ^^^^ > I know that the ARPA net was old, but... :-) > > I still think it is bogus. If they say "3-letter", then > "Fr " isn't allowable, neither is " Fr". Well, I think that "Mon", "Die", "Mit", "Don", "Fre", "Sam", "Son" are as good as the two letter abbreviations, and while I do not have any calendar with the 3 letter abbreviation at hand (but one, that uses a single character throughout :), I think you will easily find the 3 character form if you only look for it. For that reason, I think that the 3 character form should be used. Regards, STefan