Red-green color blindness is fairly common as well :-)
On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 5:10 PM Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 at 15:28, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 2.x is blue (why not green Jenkins? whyyyyy?)
> >
>
> From Wikipedia:
> Japanese traffic signals mostly follow the same rule except that the "go"
> signals are referred to as 青 (blue
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction_in_language#Japanese>),
> which they historically were in fact, but this caused complications with
> the international "green for go" rule, so [29]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light#cite_note-30> in 1973 a decree
> was issued that the "go" light should be changed to the bluest possible hue
> of green, thus making it factually greener without having to change the
> name from 青(blue) to 緑(green)
>
> (Original author of Jenkins is Japanese)
>
> --
> Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
