[tz] [PATCH] Minor spelling, accent, or English fixes.

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Thu Aug 7 05:51:52 UTC 2014


---
 africa       | 2 +-
 asia         | 8 ++++----
 date.c       | 2 +-
 europe       | 6 +++---
 southamerica | 2 +-
 zone.tab     | 2 +-
 zone1970.tab | 2 +-
 7 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/africa b/africa
index 4ace7e9..339d6c4 100644
--- a/africa
+++ b/africa
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ Zone Africa/Lubumbashi	1:49:52 -	LMT	1897 Nov 9
 Zone Africa/Brazzaville	1:01:08 -	LMT	1912
 			1:00	-	WAT
 
-# Côte D'Ivoire / Ivory Coast
+# Côte d'Ivoire / Ivory Coast
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Africa/Abidjan	-0:16:08 -	LMT	1912
 			 0:00	-	GMT
diff --git a/asia b/asia
index 6130e59..97b2030 100644
--- a/asia
+++ b/asia
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ Rule	PRC	1987	1991	-	Apr	Sun>=10	0:00	1:00	D
 #   * The Republic of China instituted Beijing mean solar time effective
 #     the official calendar book of 1914.
 #   * The French Concession in Shanghai set up signal stations in
-#     French docks in the 1890s, controled by Xujiahui (Zikawei)
+#     French docks in the 1890s, controlled by Xujiahui (Zikawei)
 #     Obervatory and set to local mean time.
 #   * "From the end of the 19th century" it changed to UT+8.
 #   * Chinese Customs (by then reduced to a tool of foreign powers)
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ Rule	PRC	1987	1991	-	Apr	Sun>=10	0:00	1:00	D
 # "The Working-Calendar for The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Government"
 # <http://www.sinkiang.gov.cn/service/ourworking/> (2014-04-22).
 # Unfortunately, we have no good records of time in Xinjiang before 1986.
-# During the 20th century parts of Xinjiang were ruled by the Qing dyansty,
+# During the 20th century parts of Xinjiang were ruled by the Qing dynasty,
 # the Republic of China, various warlords, the First and Second East Turkestan
 # Republics, the Soviet Union, the Kuomintang, and the People's Republic of
 # China, and tracking down all these organizations' timekeeping rules would be
@@ -710,7 +710,7 @@ Zone	Asia/Hong_Kong	7:36:42 -	LMT	1904 Oct 30
 #
 #   The Summer Time this year is adopted from midnight Apr 15 until Sep 20
 #   midnight. To save (energy?) consumption, we're expanding Summer Time
-#   adption till Oct 31 midnight.
+#   adoption till Oct 31 midnight.
 #
 # The Central Weather Bureau website didn't mention that, however it can
 # be found from historical government announcement database.
@@ -1589,7 +1589,7 @@ Zone	Asia/Qyzylorda	4:21:52 -	LMT	1924 May  2
 			5:00	-	QYZT	1992 Jan 19 2:00
 			6:00 RussiaAsia	QYZ%sT	2005 Mar 15
 			6:00	-	QYZT
-# Aqtobe (aka Aktobe, formerly Akt'ubinsk)
+# Aqtobe (aka Aktobe, formerly Aktyubinsk)
 Zone	Asia/Aqtobe	3:48:40	-	LMT	1924 May  2
 			4:00	-	AKTT	1930 Jun 21 # Aktyubinsk Time
 			5:00	-	AKTT	1981 Apr  1
diff --git a/date.c b/date.c
index a9ca67f..9a0b84c 100644
--- a/date.c
+++ b/date.c
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
  * from this software without specific prior written permission.
  * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
  * IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
- * WARRANTIES OF MERCHANT[A]BILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+ * WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
  */
 
 #include "private.h"
diff --git a/europe b/europe
index 3ab6b0f..97b9f63 100644
--- a/europe
+++ b/europe
@@ -1259,7 +1259,7 @@ Zone	Europe/Berlin	0:53:28 -	LMT	1893 Apr
 # http://www.srf.ch/player/video?id=c012c029-03b7-4c2b-9164-aa5902cd58d3
 
 # From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-03):
-# Busingen and Zurich have shared clocks since 1970.
+# Büsingen and Zurich have shared clocks since 1970.
 
 Link	Europe/Zurich	Europe/Busingen
 
@@ -1538,7 +1538,7 @@ Link	Europe/Rome	Europe/San_Marino
 # institute daylight-saving time this spring, LETA reported.
 # Last February the three Baltic states decided not to turn back their
 # clocks one hour in the spring....
-# Minister of Economy Aigars Kalvitis noted that Latvia had too few
+# Minister of Economy Aigars Kalvītis noted that Latvia had too few
 # daylight hours and thus decided to comply with a draft European
 # Commission directive that provides for instituting daylight-saving
 # time in EU countries between 2002 and 2006. The Latvian government
@@ -3284,7 +3284,7 @@ Zone Europe/Zaporozhye	2:20:40 -	LMT	1880
 # ...
 #
 # ...the European time rules are...standardized since 1981, when
-# most European coun[tr]ies started DST.  Before that year, only
+# most European countries started DST.  Before that year, only
 # a few countries (UK, France, Italy) had DST, each according
 # to own national rules.  In 1981, however, DST started on
 # 'Apr firstSun', and not on 'Mar lastSun' as in the following
diff --git a/southamerica b/southamerica
index de1f15e..1e5f5fc 100644
--- a/southamerica
+++ b/southamerica
@@ -1146,7 +1146,7 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco	-4:31:12 -	LMT	1914
 #
 # This is breaking news. There should be more information available later.
 
-# From Arthur Daivd Olson (2010-03-06):
+# From Arthur David Olson (2010-03-06):
 # Angel Chiang's message confirmed by Julio Pacheco; Julio provided a patch.
 
 # From Glenn Eychaner (2011-03-02): [geychaner at mac.com]
diff --git a/zone.tab b/zone.tab
index 92b9c98..4fe7527 100644
--- a/zone.tab
+++ b/zone.tab
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ AQ	-6736+06253	Antarctica/Mawson	Mawson Station, Holme Bay
 AQ	-6835+07758	Antarctica/Davis	Davis Station, Vestfold Hills
 AQ	-6617+11031	Antarctica/Casey	Casey Station, Bailey Peninsula
 AQ	-7824+10654	Antarctica/Vostok	Vostok Station, Lake Vostok
-AQ	-6640+14001	Antarctica/DumontDUrville	Dumont-d'Urville Station, Terre Adelie
+AQ	-6640+14001	Antarctica/DumontDUrville	Dumont-d'Urville Station, Adelie Land
 AQ	-690022+0393524	Antarctica/Syowa	Syowa Station, E Ongul I
 AQ	-720041+0023206	Antarctica/Troll	Troll Station, Queen Maud Land
 AR	-3436-05827	America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires	Buenos Aires (BA, CF)
diff --git a/zone1970.tab b/zone1970.tab
index c39380c..6188b61 100644
--- a/zone1970.tab
+++ b/zone1970.tab
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ AQ	-6736+06253	Antarctica/Mawson	Mawson Station, Holme Bay
 AQ	-6835+07758	Antarctica/Davis	Davis Station, Vestfold Hills
 AQ	-6617+11031	Antarctica/Casey	Casey Station, Bailey Peninsula
 AQ	-7824+10654	Antarctica/Vostok	Vostok Station, Lake Vostok
-AQ	-6640+14001	Antarctica/DumontDUrville	Dumont-d'Urville Station, Terre Adelie
+AQ	-6640+14001	Antarctica/DumontDUrville	Dumont-d'Urville Station, Adélie Land
 AQ	-690022+0393524	Antarctica/Syowa	Syowa Station, E Ongul I
 AQ	-720041+0023206	Antarctica/Troll	Troll Station, Queen Maud Land
 AR	-3436-05827	America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires	Buenos Aires (BA, CF)
-- 
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