> Paul Eggert <eggert@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
