Wachamacallit again

Infoman Inc. mpereira at istar.ca
Tue Feb 8 02:28:57 UTC 2000


Why not label the database "timezoneinfo". It is somewhat longer but has a
better chance of being "unique".

regards - Jake Knoppers

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Eggert [mailto:eggert at twinsun.com]
> Sent: February 7, 2000 6:50 PM
> To: o.van.vlijmen at tip.nl
> Cc: tz at elsie.nci.nih.gov
> Subject: Re: Wachamacallit again
>
>
>    Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 17:36:40 +0100
>    From: Oscar van Vlijmen <o.van.vlijmen at tip.nl>
>
>    AltaVista gives 8246 hits when looking for 'zoneinfo'.
>
>    It is probably wise to rename the database or the web
> presentation of it,
>
> I just tried AltaVista, got an estimated 10313 pages found, and
> checked the first ten pages by hand.  Nine were references to the time
> zone database; the other web page wasn't reachable.
>
> I also tried ``tz'' and got an estimated 85414 pages.  None of the
> first ten pages were for the database.  Several were for Tanzania, as
> TZ is its two-letter country code.
>
> So from this admittedly limited survey, ``zoneinfo'' is a good name
> but ``tz'' is not.
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