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A fork for the time-zone database?

A fork for the time-zone database?

Posted Oct 10, 2021 20:07 UTC (Sun) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: A fork for the time-zone database? by divanise
Parent article: A fork for the time-zone database?

I go by (Forename) and am happy for corporate and governmental correspondence to open with "Dear (Forename)" (but also perfectly content for it to open with "Dear Mr (Forename)".

If I were more conservative about correspondence etiquette, I would expect it to open with "Dear Mr (Surname)"... but if I were that conservative about correspondence etiqutte and had a knighthood that they knew about, I would expect them to address me as "Sir (Forename)". And I would expect all of that without having to "jump through hoops" on their website, expecting simply putting my title, forename, and surname to be sufficient.

And as I am, I get mildly grumpy about letters opening "Dear (Forename) (Surname)" because they fall between two stools, satisfying neither my own casualism nor the standards expected by the formalist in my head.


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A fork for the time-zone database?

Posted Oct 23, 2021 15:23 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Every time this comes up I am obliged to post this, from years ago: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/00138...

Given the perennial state of UK government software I'm sure this is all a thousand times better by now! (Oh wait, that was a typo. I meant "worse".)


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