[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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