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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.
Diffstat (limited to 'timezone')
-rw-r--r--timezone/tst-bz28707.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/timezone/tst-bz28707.c b/timezone/tst-bz28707.c
index e29546c331..6027c40679 100644
--- a/timezone/tst-bz28707.c
+++ b/timezone/tst-bz28707.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ do_test (void)
   tzset ();
 
   return
-    /* Sanity-check that we got the right timezone-name for DST.  For
+    /* Sanity-check that we got the right abbreviation for DST.  For
        normal time, we're likely to get "-00" (the "unspecified" marker),
        even though the POSIX timezone string says "-04".  Let's not test
        that.  */