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| author | Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu> | 2013-06-27 21:51:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2013-07-02 23:06:22 -0400 |
| commit | e9dd9f9547350c7dc0473583b5c2228dc8f0ab76 (patch) | |
| tree | 8c40d1a1e527a09974839ac44a3b7b3d19232758 /man/localtime.xml | |
| parent | 6824690f140f45064157d220a24b9afbeb1d093f (diff) | |
man: improve grammar and word formatting in numerous man pages
Use proper grammar, word usage, adjective hyphenation, commas,
capitalization, spelling, etc.
To improve readability, some run-on sentences or sentence fragments were
revised.
[zj: remove the space from 'file name', 'host name', and 'time zone'.]
Diffstat (limited to 'man/localtime.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/localtime.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man/localtime.xml b/man/localtime.xml index d3da4ed277..b95c2ee6be 100644 --- a/man/localtime.xml +++ b/man/localtime.xml @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ <refnamediv> <refname>localtime</refname> - <refpurpose>Local time zone configuration file</refpurpose> + <refpurpose>Local timezone configuration file</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv> @@ -62,24 +62,24 @@ <title>Description</title> <para>The <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> file - configures the system-wide time zone of the local + configures the system-wide timezone of the local system that is used by applications for presentation to the user. It should be an absolute or relative symbolic link pointing to <filename>/usr/share/zoneinfo/</filename>, followed by - a time zone identifier such as + a timezone identifier such as <literal>Europe/Berlin</literal> or <literal>Etc/UTC</literal>. The resulting link should lead to the corresponding binary <citerefentry><refentrytitle>tzfile</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> - time zone data for the configured time zone.</para> + timezone data for the configured timezone.</para> - <para>As the time zone identifier is extracted from + <para>As the timezone identifier is extracted from the symlink target name of <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> this file may not be a normal file or hardlink.</para> - <para>The time zone may be overridden for individual + <para>The timezone may be overridden for individual programs by using the TZ environment variable. See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>environ</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para> |