[tz] [bug] phrasing in Theory

Tobias Conradi mail.2012 at tobiasconradi.com
Thu May 2 22:11:44 UTC 2013


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:58 PM,  <random832 at fastmail.us> wrote:
> On Thu, May 2, 2013, at 15:46, Tobias Conradi wrote:
>> "The daylight saving time rules to be used
>> for a particular time zone are encoded in the time zone file"
>
> Should read: ...encoded in the time zone rule file.
I suggest using
A) plural, to make clear there is more than one such file, or
B) "encoded in the corresponding time zone rule file"

> Since evidently certain people are unable to understand anything other
> than perfect pedantic precision in describing things.
And evidently the Google Chrome in-file search for "time zone rule
file" does not find "time zone file".

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