Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 09:57:34 +0100 (MET) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD current users) Subject: Re: Call for national time locales Message-ID: <199612010857.JAA12381@freebie.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199611301548.QAA02263@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Nov 30, 96 04:48:01 pm"
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J Wunsch writes: > 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? My intention was to derive it from the locale. Greg
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