[tz] Clerical patches

Alan Barrett apb at cequrux.com
Thu Aug 14 07:31:20 UTC 2014


On Wed, 13 Aug 2014, Tim Parenti wrote:
>0001 fixes up some more minor spacing issues missed in my last round 
>of patches on 2014-08-09.
>
>0002 fixes another typo in recent additions to NEWS, and adds a space 
>after the redirection operator in the new CONTRIBUTING file for added 
>clarity.

I think the descriptions for 0001 and 0002 above are swapped.

I would prefer that neatly aligned comments at the ends of lines, 
like these:

# Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
Zone   Africa/Asmara   2:35:32 -       LMT     1870
                       2:35:32 -       AMT     1890          # Asmara Mean Time
                       2:35:20 -       ADMT    1936 May 5    # Adis Dera MT

remain as they are, and not be changed to unaligned forms 
like these, which I find harder to read:

# Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
Zone   Africa/Asmara   2:35:32 -       LMT     1870
                       2:35:32 -       AMT     1890 # Asmara Mean Time
                       2:35:20 -       ADMT    1936 May  5 # Adis Dera MT

(I expanded tabs in the pasted code above)

>0004 standardizes Link lines to use single tabs.

Why?  It's much easier to read if the tabs are used to to make the
columns line up nicely (in a display that's configured for one tab every
8 columns, in the traditional way), and that sometimes needs more than
one tab.

--apb (Alan Barrett)


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