From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 29 21:35:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA24823 for current-outgoing; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 21:35:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from sequent.kiae.su (sequent.kiae.su [193.125.152.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA24818 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 21:35:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by sequent.kiae.su id AA29160 (5.65.kiae-2 ); Sat, 30 Nov 1996 09:27:32 +0400 Received: by sequent.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Sat, 30 Nov 96 09:27:32 +0400 Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.ru (8.8.3/8.8.3) id IAA00574; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 08:26:52 +0300 (MSK) Message-Id: <199611300526.IAA00574@nagual.ru> Subject: Re: Call for national time locales In-Reply-To: <199611292349.AAA27861@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Nov 30, 96 00:49:33 am" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 08:26:52 +0300 (MSK) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (Andrey A. Chernov) Organization: self X-Class: Fast X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (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 [?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 http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/