Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 20:32:34 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> for Denmark MET is actually the abbreviation recommended by the ministry of the interior. That's odd, since the Danish Standards Association recommends `CET' (reference: Posix 1003.1-1996 [ISO/IEC 9945-1: 1996], page 614, line 105). I just looked in Dejanews for recent Usenet articles mentioning `Denmark CET MET' and talking about the issue, and I found only the following relevant articles, which seem to prefer `CET' to `MET': Henrik Buch Mortensen <hbm@emi.dtu.dk> Re: MET timezone: premature end of DST <URL:news:u3d8ynaylw.fsf@amalthea.emi.dtu.dk> (1996-10-13) This article presents a new zoneinfo file written from scratch by the Danish author, which uses CET and not MET. Thomas Petersen <petersen@post1.tele.dk> Linux Danish HOWTO (part 1/1) <URL:news:Danish-HOWTO.1-7533.847339934@cc.gatech.edu> (1996-11-06) This article talks about setting the time zone for Denmark, mentions CET before MET, and then gives instructions using the old zoneinfo MET file. Do you have a reference for the `MET' recommendation? Is this `MET' an abbreviation for Danish or for English?