that looks really good. i'm glad i poked you with my terrible patch. thanks! On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 1:11 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2023-09-20 07:13, enh wrote: > > that's why i added you --- to suggest better wording 🤣 > > I noodled around a bit. There are several mistakes about timestamps in > the man pages. difftime, for example, copies the C standard's "calendar > time" wording but in Linux it's just a seconds count and need not have > anything to do with 1970 or any other calendar. And there are lots of > other howlers about leap seconds and 2038, improperly parenthesized > macros, unclear wording like "incremental adjustments", out-of-date > references, etc. > > Attached is a proposed patch to fix the problems I found before I ran > out of time. I haven't checked formatting. I'm sure it could be improved > further.
