From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 24 12:15:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA09899 for current-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 12:15:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA09884 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 12:14:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA09389; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:14:08 -0500 Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:14:08 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9611242014.AA09389@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users), wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Subject: Re: Can anyone explain...? In-Reply-To: <199611240942.KAA10256@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <9611231832.AA04161@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199611240942.KAA10256@uriah.heep.sax.de> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > What's wrong with a symlink for the MET pointing to CET? So you are suggesting a symbolic link pointing to `Europe/Berlin' from... what? > Again: we should support historically used timezone abbreviations at > least for a transitional period. Timezone abbreviations are purely tourist information; there is no process by which one can take an abbreviation and divine a timezone. Indeed, there are about ten difference places in the (English-speaking) world which use the abbreviation `EST' at various times during the year. See /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/africa for the rules used to choose which locations and which abbreviations to represent. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick