In message <199611270100.RAA16930@shade.twinsun.com>, Paul Eggert writes:
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).
Ok, they may have changed it recently then. My reference is from 1991, I guess this could be another bright move from the eurocrats in EU :-(
Do you have a reference for the `MET' recommendation? Is this `MET' an abbreviation for Danish or for English?
Danish, it refers to "Mellemeuropaeisk tid" and states the "MET" as the abreviation. Interesting footnote here: They go to great length to explain how to write the 02:00 - 03:00 interwall in the fall transistion: During the first interval use the suffix 'A': 02:14A During the second interval use the suffix 'B': 02:07B Thus the timescale will be: ... 01:58 01:59 02:00A 02:01A ... 02:58A 02:59A 02:00B 02:01B ... 02:58B 02:59B 03:00 03:01 Rather computer-unfriendly really... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.