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authorJason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>2013-06-27 21:51:44 +0200
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2013-07-02 23:06:22 -0400
commite9dd9f9547350c7dc0473583b5c2228dc8f0ab76 (patch)
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parent6824690f140f45064157d220a24b9afbeb1d093f (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'.]
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diff --git a/man/localtime.xml b/man/localtime.xml
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@@ -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>