[tz] "time zone" vs "timezone" in documentation
Walter Harms
wharms at bfs.de
Wed Jul 4 07:35:03 UTC 2018
> Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> hat am 27. Juni 2018 um 21:46 geschrieben:
>
>
> Paul Eggert wrote:
> > We could distinguish "time zone" in the usual English-language sense (a set
> > of
> > geographic locations that currently share the same standard time offset from
> >
> > UTC) from "timezone" in the POSIX sense (a history and predicted future of
> > UTC
> > offsets, abbreviations and isdst flags). If so, the tzdb documentation could
> > be
> > more careful about using "time zone" for the former and "timezone" for the
> > latter, and this would make for fewer changes to the GNU/Linux man-pages for
> >
> > tzdb. I can look into this and propose an updated set of tzdb-related
> > patches
> > accordingly.
>
> I've done that, plus a few other minor fixups, and have installed the attached
>
> proposed patches into the development tzdb repository on GitHub. I plan to
> follow up by emailing to linux-man a corresponding set of patches to the
> GNU/Linux man pages.
I would suggest adding a glossary with "timezone" and "time zone". In a few
years everyone will have forgotten about this and everyone is confused why
this was done.
re,
wh
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