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

[Michael Douglass]

On 6/22/18 13:30, Lester Caine wrote:
> 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 ...
>
And if you want another one how about the inconsistent use in class names:

TimeZone for java - implies space before Z
timezone in python - wouldn't it be time_zone if a space was implied?

That aside - most documentation and names seem to assume 2 words rather 
than 1.

Even google offers you

Did you mean: */time zone/* 
<https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1&q=time+zone+classes&spell=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiekffh6-fbAhXis1kKHWjSDlgQBQgkKAA&biw=1661&bih=984> 


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