Re: obsoleting two time zone abbreviation variables
Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
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| Organization | UCLA Computer Science Department |
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On 2026-08-31 13:59, Ulrich Müller wrote: > Only loosely related: This section of the manual also contains some > awkward wording Thanks, tried to fix that by installing the attached.
0001-clarify-Greenwich-meridian-vs-time.patch
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From 0eb7313a414117a3f359a792d8db4da8d92274f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:42:55 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] ; clarify Greenwich meridian vs time --- doc/lispref/os.texi | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/lispref/os.texi b/doc/lispref/os.texi index 4c2563748dd..21e37ab94cc 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/os.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/os.texi @@ -1541,9 +1541,13 @@ Time Zone Rules This function returns a list describing the time zone that the user is in. +@cindex Univeral Time The value has the form @code{(@var{offset} @var{abbr})}. Here -@var{offset} is an integer giving the number of seconds ahead of Universal Time -(east of Greenwich). A negative value means west of Greenwich. The +@var{offset} is an integer number of seconds of time ahead of +Universal Time, the time scale originally based on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), +the local mean time at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. +A positive value is suitable for time zones east of Greenwich, +and negative for west of Greenwich. The second element, @var{abbr}, is a string giving a possibly-ambiguous abbreviation for the time zone, e.g., @samp{"IST"} for India Standard Time, Irish Standard Time, or Israel Standard Time. -- 2.53.0