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Date:      Sat, 30 Nov 1996 01:01:12 +0300 (MSK)
From:      =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (Andrey A. Chernov) <ache@nagual.ru>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Call for national time locales
Message-ID:  <199611292201.BAA00453@nagual.ru>
In-Reply-To: <199611292141.WAA27354@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Nov 29, 96 10:41:10 pm"

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> To my defense (the original timedef was mine), i thought that two-
> letter abbreviations are quite more common in German, that's why i've
> been using them in the first place.  However, if Posix mandates them
> to be three-letter, and given the uglyness of the comma problem, i'm
> all for changing them into three-letter abbrevs as well.

No, POSIX never mandates it, POSIX mandates real civil life
abbreviations only.


-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@nagual.ru>
http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/



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