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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2017-11-06 22:36:19 -0800
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2017-11-06 22:42:35 -0800
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Be more consistent about UT vs UTC
* NEWS, africa, asia, australasia, europe, localtime.c: * newctime.3, newtzset.3, northamerica, southamerica, theory.html: * tz-link.htm, tzselect.ksh, zdump.c, zic.8, zic.c: Be more consistent about using "UT" instead of "UTC" when talking about timestamps that might predate the introduction of UTC. * tzselect.ksh: Use AEST instead of the (obsolescent) abbreviation GST when talking about UT offsets.
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@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ is used to show where the
of the time zone abbreviation goes.
Alternately, a format can use the pair of characters
.B %z
-to stand for the UTC offset in the form
+to stand for the UT offset in the form
.RI \(+- hh ,
.RI \(+- hhmm ,
or
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ using the shortest form that does not lose information, where
.IR mm ,
and
.I ss
-are the hours, minutes, and seconds east (+) or west (\(mi) of UTC.
+are the hours, minutes, and seconds east (+) or west (\(mi) of UT.
Alternately,
a slash (/)
separates standard and daylight abbreviations.