From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 30 07:53:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA22489 for current-outgoing; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 07:53:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA22463 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 07:52:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id QAA19515 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 16:52:42 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA00389 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 16:52:42 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id QAA02263 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 16:48:01 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611301548.QAA02263@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Call for national time locales To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 16:48:01 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199611300737.IAA20315@freebie.lemis.de> from Greg Lehey at "Nov 30, 96 08:37:37 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (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 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. ;-)