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Date:      Sat, 30 Nov 1996 08:26:52 +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:  <199611300526.IAA00574@nagual.ru>
In-Reply-To: <199611292349.AAA27861@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Nov 30, 96 00:49:33 am"

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> As [?KOI8-R?] wrote:
> 
> > No, POSIX never mandates it, POSIX mandates real civil life
> > abbreviations only.
> 
> Well, so i'd say: either (unpadded) two-letter abbrevs (preferred
> option), or use the three-letter ones Stefan has been posting.  The
> padded two-letter abbreviations look really ugly either way.

Well, German is your locale and you can do what you want with it,
I can only warn you that if you will use unpadded two letters,
you'll break too many programs.

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



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