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A fork for the time-zone database?

A fork for the time-zone database?

Posted Oct 11, 2021 15:04 UTC (Mon) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: A fork for the time-zone database? by mbunkus
Parent article: A fork for the time-zone database?

Easy. You don't ask "goes by", but "how would you like to be addressed when we send emails or letters to you".

As one datapoint, nowadays I need to provide all three of my "first" names on banking-related douments because of the current crop of gobsmackingly dumb regulations. But nobody should ever use anything but the second of those names to address me. No, not the first, and certainly not all three, I'm not the male equivalent of Pippi Longstockings dammit.

Now this is certainly a First World Problem compared to people who are named O'Hare and cannot even enter that due to broken Bobby Tables Prevention filters, much less my acquaintance Aahz (yes that's his single real-life name), or … the list goes on.


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