Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 16:48:01 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Call for national time locales Message-ID: <199611301548.QAA02263@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199611300737.IAA20315@freebie.lemis.de> from Greg Lehey at "Nov 30, 96 08:37:37 am"
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As Greg Lehey wrote: > On that subject, let me come back to harp on time zone names. If the > days of the week are in German, why is the time zone this deprecated > MET thing? Should be MEZ. Yes, but this requires much more complexity than we've got now. For each timezone name, you need a matrix of foreign language translations. Well, perhaps one could start with just two elements for each row of this matrix: ``C'' (alias English) language, and the native language(s) that are spoken in the appropriate zone. But as for MET/CET, the latter covers already quite a bunch of languages. French, German, Danish, Norwegian, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Serbian, Croatian come to mind. You see the problem? -- 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. ;-)
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