[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Slashdot time.



  Understood.

  The point is that mentionning Palestine without Israel or vice-versa is
going to make a lot of people unhappy.

  One way out is to mention Jerusalem as the geographical reference to
your time zone rather than Palestine/Israel.
  Certainly, all sides to the conflict will be eager to adopt it.

alex

On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 09:45:57PM -0500, hemos wrote:
>We're looking at it-the thing is that this isn't something that is country
>based-it's time zones.   It's in the to-do list...
>
>Jeff "hemos" Bates		hemos@slashdot.org
>"Nice is suspicious"
>	-Kate VerSchure
>
>On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, alex khalil wrote:
>
>> Hemos
>> 
>>   Please make sure that Palestine is listed as well.
>> 
>>   Thanks
>> 
>> alex
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 04:28:03PM -0500, hemos wrote:
>> >Roger that-I'm checking in to that.
>> >
>> >Jeff "hemos" Bates		hemos@slashdot.org
>> >"Nice is suspicious"
>> >	-Kate VerSchure
>> >
>> >On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 hetz@mail.dream.co.il wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >> 
>> >> Could you please take care of this?
>> >> 
>> >> Thanks
>> >> 
>> >>                    +---------------------------------+
>> >>                    |          Hetz Ben Hamo          |
>> >>                    |     Promoting the Linux OS      |
>> >>                    |        hetz@dream.co.il         |
>> >>                    +---------------------------------+
>> >> 
>> >> On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Liran Zvibel wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> > I just visited the new Slashdot user page, and found out that Iran is listed
>> >> > as a country, but Israel isn't.
>> >> > 
>> >> > Hetz, Eli, can you do something about it?
>> >> > 
>> >> > Liran.
>> >> > --
>> >> > __________________________________________________________________________
>> >> > Liran Zvibel.                          | " You know, how is The Force 
>> >> > System Programmer, System Administrator. | like duct tape? Answer:       
>> >> > email : liranz@actcom.co.il            |   it has a light side, a dark
>> >> > phone : 972 - 3 - 6493939            |   side, and it holds the
>> >> > home: http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz|   universe together. "
>> >> > UIN: 708004 ; WHOIS : LZ615            |             -- Larry Wall 
>> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >> > 
>> >> 
>> >
>>