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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2023-06-22 13:44:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2023-06-22 13:49:09 -0700 |
| commit | 21fbc0a19366f89638a30eef2b53c6d4baafdb88 (patch) | |
| tree | 72d20654a70d7b7b953791bcffd24f1c6a025901 /time/tzfile.c | |
| parent | 99f9ae4ed0ba9f2c84520b78fd0eeed96a7ed40e (diff) | |
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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.
Diffstat (limited to 'time/tzfile.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | time/tzfile.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/time/tzfile.c b/time/tzfile.c index a267eb652e..8a923d0ccc 100644 --- a/time/tzfile.c +++ b/time/tzfile.c @@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ __tzfile_read (const char *file, size_t extra, char **extrap) fclose (f); - /* First "register" all timezone names. */ + /* First "register" all time zone abbreviations. */ for (i = 0; i < num_types; ++i) if (__tzstring (&zone_names[types[i].idx]) == NULL) goto ret_free_transitions; @@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ __tzfile_default (const char *std, const char *dst, types[1].offset = dstoff; types[1].isdst = 1; - /* Reset the zone names to point to the user's names. */ + /* Reset time zone abbreviations to point to the user's abbreviations. */ __tzname[0] = (char *) std; __tzname[1] = (char *) dst; |