[tz] "time zone" vs "timezone" in documentation

Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk
Fri Jun 22 17:30:03 UTC 2018


On 22/06/18 17:18, Paul Eggert wrote:
> If I were designing the terminology from scratch, I wouldn't specify two 
> nearly-identical phrases "time zone" and "timezone" to mean such 
> different things. However, the phrases do have the advantage of existing 
> practice (common English usage and POSIX, respectively).

tzdist specified that the 'time zone' format would be used throughout 
but there are places with the space is problematic and needs replacing 
in some way ...

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