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authorJan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>2014-08-03 07:11:12 +0200
committerJan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>2015-11-06 13:00:02 +0100
commitb938cb902c3b5bca807a94b277672c64d6767886 (patch)
tree267bd1d61268865fa405b3e5a3027041f7f3a183 /man/systemd.time.xml
parenta6bff4a7428b9539d85618e3c91fcb60be93f3fa (diff)
doc: correct punctuation and improve typography in documentation
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diff --git a/man/systemd.time.xml b/man/systemd.time.xml
index df7e1ecfb9..c96e19e13f 100644
--- a/man/systemd.time.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.time.xml
@@ -117,11 +117,11 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Parsing Timestamps</title>
- <para>When parsing systemd will accept a similar syntax, but
+ <para>When parsing, systemd will accept a similar syntax, but
expects no timezone specification, unless it is given as the
- literal string "UTC". In this case the time is considered in UTC,
+ literal string "UTC". In this case, the time is considered in UTC,
otherwise in the local timezone. The weekday specification is
- optional, but when the weekday is specified it must either be in
+ optional, but when the weekday is specified, it must either be in
the abbreviated (<literal>Wed</literal>) or non-abbreviated
(<literal>Wednesday</literal>) English language form (case does
not matter), and is not subject to the locale choice of the user.
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
used to refer to the current time (or of the invocation of the
command that is currently executed). <literal>today</literal>,
<literal>yesterday</literal>, <literal>tomorrow</literal> refer to
- 00:00:00 of the current day, the day before or the next day,
+ 00:00:00 of the current day, the day before, or the next day,
respectively.</para>
<para>When parsing, systemd will also accept relative time
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@
<para>Note that timestamps printed by systemd will not be parsed
correctly by systemd, as the timezone specification is not
accepted, and printing timestamps is subject to locale settings
- for the weekday while parsing only accepts English weekday
+ for the weekday, while parsing only accepts English weekday
names.</para>
<para>In some cases, systemd will display a relative timestamp
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@
<literal>Mon *-*-* 00:00:00</literal>,
<literal>*-01-01 00:00:00</literal>,
<literal>*-01,04,07,10-01 00:00:00</literal> and
- <literal>*-01,07-01 00:00:00</literal> respectively.
+ <literal>*-01,07-01 00:00:00</literal>, respectively.
</para>
<para>Examples for valid timestamps and their