You'll say ``Argh!'' now, i know. After a long and heated discussion in the FreeBSD core team, we came to the conclusion that changing the timezone name for Central Europe from MET to CET is a very bad move. The reasoning: the name MET is in widespread use here on almost all Unix systems around. (With AIX being the most noteworthy and most funny exception; they call it ``Norway-France-Time'', NFT. :) However technically correct your choice for CET might be, it breaks tradition, and is in general something people here will consider a ``US-centric'' decision. MET might sound like a half-translated term in German, but people can easily memorize it, and identify their own timezone by this name. Other languages like Danish even use this term as well as their local abbreviation (which is no surprise given that Danish is closer to English than German is). You'll note that we don't mind you US inhabitants naming the New York timezone ``EST'' either, even though the term ``Western Atlantic Timezone'' is far more correct from our point of view, since you are west of us, not east as the name suggests. Needless to say, i'd leave the decision for this name at the people that have to live with the name. But i expect you doing likewise: respect our wish to keep the name `MET' for the Central/Middle European Time. Changing it will gain nothing, but cause support hassles for our userbase. Btw., there's at least one alternate (but not less bogus) translation for this abbreviation: Mediterranean Time. I'm also sending this request on behalf of Poul-Henning Kamp, another FreeBSD core team member. Cc to him for this. -- 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. ;-)