[tz] Time zone vs timezone

[Tobias Conradi]

was: Re: [tz] Fwd: Fwd: [apps-discuss] Proposed working group:
Timezone Data Distribution Service (tzdist)

On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 5:32 PM, todd <tglassey at certichron.com> wrote:
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> isnt the term TIMEZONE a term of art specific to Time Keeping as a science?
Is it? Like HTTP referer (sic) is one for HTTP referrer? Maybe it only
is, because some people thought it should be made so.

Me, and probably Jon Skeet are only talking about proper (most us) English:

1)
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=time+zone%2CTime+zone%2Ctimezone%2CTimezone%2CTimeZone%2Czone+time&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ctime%20zone%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CTime%20zone%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ctimezone%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CTimezone%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CTimeZone%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Czone%20time%3B%2Cc0

2)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/timezone

3)
http://www.britannica.com/search?query=timezone

>So what is the issue - proper English then to hide terms which are specific to this realm?

Proper English term to make transparent that there is no conceptual
difference between the objects the terms refer to.

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