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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2023-06-22 13:44:50 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2023-06-22 13:49:09 -0700
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Call "CST" a time zone abbreviation, not a name
In documentation, call strings like "CST" time zone abbreviations, not
time zone names.  This terminology is more precise, and is what tzdb uses.
A string like "CST" is ambiguous and does not fully name a time zone.
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diff --git a/time/mktime.c b/time/mktime.c
index 94a4320e6c..a73474e7ee 100644
--- a/time/mktime.c
+++ b/time/mktime.c
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ __time64_t
 __mktime64 (struct tm *tp)
 {
   /* POSIX.1 8.1.1 requires that whenever mktime() is called, the
-     time zone names contained in the external variable 'tzname' shall
+     time zone abbreviations contained in the external variable 'tzname' shall
      be set as if the tzset() function had been called.  */
   __tzset ();