[tz] [PROPOSED 2/5] Capitalize “POSIX”
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sun Nov 19 21:30:12 UTC 2023
Change the relatively-rare instances of “Posix” to “POSIX”,
in the interests of uniformity.
---
Makefile | 8 ++++----
NEWS | 2 +-
localtime.c | 4 ++--
northamerica | 2 +-
tzselect.8 | 2 +-
tzselect.ksh | 14 +++++++-------
6 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b3cc6702..a0f4f5ef 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ GCC_DEBUG_FLAGS = -DGCC_LINT -g3 -O3 -fno-common \
#
# NIST-PCTS:151-2, Version 1.4, (1993-12-03) is a test suite put
# out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology
-# which claims to test C and Posix conformance. If you want to pass PCTS, add
+# which claims to test C and POSIX conformance. If you want to pass PCTS, add
# -DPCTS
# to the end of the "CFLAGS=" line.
#
@@ -424,18 +424,18 @@ ZFLAGS=
ZIC_INSTALL= $(ZIC) -d '$(DESTDIR)$(TZDIR)' $(LEAPSECONDS)
-# The name of a Posix-compliant 'awk' on your system.
+# The name of a POSIX-compliant 'awk' on your system.
# mawk 1.3.3 and Solaris 10 /usr/bin/awk do not work.
# Also, it is better (though not essential) if 'awk' supports UTF-8,
# and unfortunately mawk and busybox awk do not support UTF-8.
# Try AWK=gawk or AWK=nawk if your awk has the abovementioned problems.
AWK= awk
-# The full path name of a Posix-compliant shell, preferably one that supports
+# The full path name of a POSIX-compliant shell, preferably one that supports
# the Korn shell's 'select' statement as an extension.
# These days, Bash is the most popular.
# It should be OK to set this to /bin/sh, on platforms where /bin/sh
-# lacks 'select' or doesn't completely conform to Posix, but /bin/bash
+# lacks 'select' or doesn't completely conform to POSIX, but /bin/bash
# is typically nicer if it works.
KSHELL= /bin/bash
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 295141f8..82cd5da1 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4341,7 +4341,7 @@ Release 2012j - 2012-11-12 18:34:49 -0800
now uses tz at iana.org rather than the old elsie address.
zic -v now complains about abbreviations that are less than 3
- or more than 6 characters, as per Posix. Formerly, it checked
+ or more than 6 characters, as per POSIX. Formerly, it checked
for abbreviations that were more than 3.
'make public' no longer puts its temporary directory under /tmp,
diff --git a/localtime.c b/localtime.c
index a54d3ae4..1f6193a4 100644
--- a/localtime.c
+++ b/localtime.c
@@ -869,8 +869,8 @@ getsecs(register const char *strp, int_fast32_t *const secsp)
int_fast32_t secsperhour = SECSPERHOUR;
/*
- ** 'HOURSPERDAY * DAYSPERWEEK - 1' allows quasi-Posix rules like
- ** "M10.4.6/26", which does not conform to Posix,
+ ** 'HOURSPERDAY * DAYSPERWEEK - 1' allows quasi-POSIX rules like
+ ** "M10.4.6/26", which does not conform to POSIX,
** but which specifies the equivalent of
** "02:00 on the first Sunday on or after 23 Oct".
*/
diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica
index d8e3601c..8ac106ab 100644
--- a/northamerica
+++ b/northamerica
@@ -1453,7 +1453,7 @@ Rule StJohns 1989 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D
Rule StJohns 2007 2011 - Mar Sun>=8 0:01 1:00 D
Rule StJohns 2007 2010 - Nov Sun>=1 0:01 0 S
#
-# St John's has an apostrophe, but Posix file names can't have apostrophes.
+# St John's has an apostrophe, but POSIX file names can't have apostrophes.
# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone America/St_Johns -3:30:52 - LMT 1884
-3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1918
diff --git a/tzselect.8 b/tzselect.8
index 4578090f..ee031614 100644
--- a/tzselect.8
+++ b/tzselect.8
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Output version information and exit.
.SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
.TP
\f3AWK\fP
-Name of a Posix-compliant
+Name of a POSIX-compliant
.B awk
program (default:
.BR awk ).
diff --git a/tzselect.ksh b/tzselect.ksh
index 98774c03..dac931d4 100644
--- a/tzselect.ksh
+++ b/tzselect.ksh
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ REPORT_BUGS_TO=tz at iana.org
# Porting notes:
#
-# This script requires a Posix-like shell and prefers the extension of a
+# This script requires a POSIX-like shell and prefers the extension of a
# 'select' statement. The 'select' statement was introduced in the
# Korn shell and is available in Bash and other shell implementations.
# If your host lacks both Bash and the Korn shell, you can get their
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ REPORT_BUGS_TO=tz at iana.org
#
# This script also uses several features of modern awk programs.
-# If your host lacks awk, or has an old awk that does not conform to Posix,
+# If your host lacks awk, or has an old awk that does not conform to POSIX,
# you can use either of the following free programs instead:
#
# Gawk (GNU awk) <https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/>
@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@ say() {
printf '%s\n' "$1"
}
-# Check for awk Posix compliance.
+# Check for awk POSIX compliance.
($AWK -v x=y 'BEGIN { exit 123 }') </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1
[ $? = 123 ] || {
- say >&2 "$0: Sorry, your '$AWK' program is not Posix compatible."
+ say >&2 "$0: Sorry, your '$AWK' program is not POSIX compatible."
exit 1
}
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ while
eval '
doselect '"$quoted_continents"' \
"coord - I want to use geographical coordinates." \
- "TZ - I want to specify the timezone using the Posix TZ format." \
+ "TZ - I want to specify the timezone using the POSIX TZ format." \
"time - I know local time already."
continent=$select_result
case $continent in
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ while
case $continent in
TZ)
- # Ask the user for a Posix TZ string. Check that it conforms.
+ # Ask the user for a POSIX TZ string. Check that it conforms.
while
echo >&2 'Please enter the desired value' \
'of the TZ environment variable.'
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ while
exit 0
}'
do
- say >&2 "'$TZ' is not a conforming Posix timezone string."
+ say >&2 "'$TZ' is not a conforming POSIX timezone string."
done
TZ_for_date=$TZ;;
*)
--
2.40.1
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