From 64c5d196f739b7662497b0986d4d94c418a3fd85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 10:40:17 -0700 Subject: [PROPOSED] Fix spelling and grammar in commentary MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Apparently I didn't remember how to spell “mnemonic”. --- NEWS | 4 ++-- africa | 2 +- asia | 8 ++++---- australasia | 6 +++--- calendars | 2 +- europe | 6 +++--- localtime.c | 2 +- southamerica | 2 +- zishrink.awk | 2 +- 9 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 001747c..34c1cf2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ Release 2021b - 2021-09-24 16:23:00 -0700 Rename Pacific/Enderbury to Pacific/Kanton. When we added Enderbury in 1993, we did not know that it is uninhabited and that Kanton (population two dozen) is the only inhabited location in - that timezone. The old name is now a backward-compatility link. + that timezone. The old name is now a backward-compatibility link. Changes to past timestamps @@ -4387,7 +4387,7 @@ Release 2007a - 2007-01-08 12:28:29 -0500 changes by Paul Eggert - Derick Rethan's Asmara change + Derick Rethans's Asmara change Oscar van Vlijmen's Easter Island local mean time change diff --git a/africa b/africa index 359a3d3..b398f66 100644 --- a/africa +++ b/africa @@ -1356,7 +1356,7 @@ Zone Indian/Reunion 3:41:52 - LMT 1911 Jun # Saint-Denis # From Michael Deckers (2018-12-30): # https://www.legis-palop.org/download.jsp?idFile=102818 # ... [The legal time of the country, which coincides with universal -# coordinated time, will be restituted at 2 o'clock on day 1 of January, 2019.] +# coordinated time, will be reinstituted at 2 o'clock on day 1 of January, 2019.] Zone Africa/Sao_Tome 0:26:56 - LMT 1884 -0:36:45 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 00:00u # Lisbon MT diff --git a/asia b/asia index 049b35c..63b11ed 100644 --- a/asia +++ b/asia @@ -344,11 +344,11 @@ Rule Shang 1919 only - Sep 30 24:00 0 S # in the city at the time for people who use different time standard to adjust # their clock to their preferred time. # -# a. For the 1940 May 31 spring forward, the essay claim that it was -# coordinared between the international settlement authority and the French +# a. For the 1940 May 31 spring forward, the essay claims that it was +# coordinated between the international settlement authority and the French # concession authority and have gathered support from Hong Kong and Xiamen, # that it would spring forward an hour from May 31 "midnight", and the essay -# claim "Hong Kong government implemented the spring forward in the same time +# claims "Hong Kong government implemented the spring forward in the same time # on the same date as Shanghai". # # b. For the 1940 fall back, it was said that they initially intended to do @@ -2465,7 +2465,7 @@ Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931 # the third time belt (before 1930 this means +03). # From Alexander Konzurovski (2018-12-20): -# Qyzyolrda Region (Asia/Qyzylorda) is changing its time zone from +# Qyzylorda Region (Asia/Qyzylorda) is changing its time zone from # UTC+6 to UTC+5 effective December 21st, 2018. The legal document is # located here: http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P1800000817 (russian language). diff --git a/australasia b/australasia index 33079fa..6a28b20 100644 --- a/australasia +++ b/australasia @@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Rarotonga 13:20:56 - LMT 1899 Dec 26 # Avarua # Niue -# See Pacific/Raratonga comments for 1952 transition. +# See Pacific/Rarotonga comments for 1952 transition. # # From Tim Parenti (2021-09-13): # Consecutive contemporaneous editions of The Air Almanac listed -11:20 for @@ -1829,8 +1829,8 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Phake Nick (2018-10-27): # ... pointed out that # currently tzdata say Pacific/Kwajalein switched from GMT+11 to GMT-12 in -# 1969 October without explanation, however an 1993 article from NYT say it -# synchorized its day with US mainland about 40 years ago and thus the switch +# 1969 October without explanation, however an 1993 article from NYT says it +# synchronized its day with the US mainland about 40 years ago and thus the switch # should occur at around 1950s instead. # # From Paul Eggert (2018-11-18): diff --git a/calendars b/calendars index 8bc7062..2e16d85 100644 --- a/calendars +++ b/calendars @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Gregorian calendar: 31 Dec 1700/ 12 Jan 1701 - Friesland, Groningen, Zürich, Bern, Basel, Geneva, - Turgau, and Schaffhausen + Thurgau, and Schaffhausen 1724 - Glarus, Appenzell, and the city of St. Gallen diff --git a/europe b/europe index 208585d..8227416 100644 --- a/europe +++ b/europe @@ -3353,7 +3353,7 @@ Zone Asia/Vladivostok 8:47:31 - LMT 1922 Nov 15 # 14-30 **** Ust-Maysky District # From Arthur David Olson (2012-05-09): -# Tomponskij and Ust'-Majskij switched from Vladivostok time to Yakutsk time +# Tomponsky and Ust-Maysky switched from Vladivostok time to Yakutsk time # in 2011. # From Paul Eggert (2012-11-25): @@ -3479,7 +3479,7 @@ Zone Asia/Srednekolymsk 10:14:52 - LMT 1924 May 2 # 14-22 **** Oymyakonsky District # From Arthur David Olson (2012-05-09): -# Ojmyakonskij [and the Kuril Islands] switched from +# Oymyakonsky [and the Kuril Islands] switched from # Magadan time to Vladivostok time in 2011. # # From Tim Parenti (2014-07-06), per Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-07-02): @@ -4028,7 +4028,7 @@ Link Europe/Istanbul Asia/Istanbul # Istanbul is in both continents. # Ukraine # -# From Alois Triendl (2014-03-01): +# From Alois Treindl (2014-03-01): # REGULATION A N O V A on March 20, 1992 N 139 ... means that from # 1992 on, Ukraine had DST with begin time at 02:00 am, on last Sunday # in March, and end time 03:00 am, last Sunday in September.... diff --git a/localtime.c b/localtime.c index 913c7e8..f1961f9 100644 --- a/localtime.c +++ b/localtime.c @@ -1513,7 +1513,7 @@ tzfree(timezone_t sp) ** set the applicable parts of tzname, timezone and altzone; ** however, it's OK to omit this step if the timezone is POSIX-compatible, ** since in that case tzset should have already done this step correctly. -** SETNAME's type is intfast32_t for compatibility with gmtsub, +** SETNAME's type is int_fast32_t for compatibility with gmtsub, ** but it is actually a boolean and its value should be 0 or 1. */ diff --git a/southamerica b/southamerica index c6249cd..445d85b 100644 --- a/southamerica +++ b/southamerica @@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ Zone America/La_Paz -4:32:36 - LMT 1890 # From Rodrigo Severo (2004-10-04): # It's just the biannual change made necessary by the much hyped, supposedly -# modern Brazilian eletronic voting machines which, apparently, can't deal +# modern Brazilian electronic voting machines which, apparently, can't deal # with a time change between the first and the second rounds of the elections. # From Steffen Thorsen (2007-09-20): diff --git a/zishrink.awk b/zishrink.awk index 1947c7c..88563f9 100644 --- a/zishrink.awk +++ b/zishrink.awk @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ function record_hash(n, name) function gen_rule_name(name, \ n) { - # Use a simple memonic: the first two letters. + # Use a simple mnemonic: the first two letters. n = substr(name, 1, 2) record_hash(n, name) # printf "# %s = %s\n", n, name -- 2.32.0