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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2000-04-05 15:06:03 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2000-04-05 15:06:03 (GMT) |
commit | d1a56f4235638b8b26639023557cd995d8fb89b2 (patch) | |
tree | 230c5bb369c9029de9bbfa1fe0bcde1412148ed1 | |
parent | 898915d7e244cd19cb4eb6b7100477bf8fe01aa3 (diff) | |
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Noted by Guido:
Fixed up descriptions of altzone and timezone not to refer to the
0th meridian, which doesn't exist. Reference is now to UTC.
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libtime.tex b/Doc/lib/libtime.tex index bca946d..07fc177 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libtime.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libtime.tex @@ -110,10 +110,10 @@ string. It may also be modified at run time. \end{datadesc} \begin{datadesc}{altzone} -The offset of the local DST timezone, in seconds west of the 0th -meridian, if one is defined. Negative if the local DST timezone is -east of the 0th meridian (as in Western Europe, including the UK). -Only use this if \code{daylight} is nonzero. +The offset of the local DST timezone, in seconds west of UTC, if one +is defined. Negative if the local DST timezone is east of the 0th +meridian (as in Western Europe, including the UK). Only use this if +\code{daylight} is nonzero. \end{datadesc} \begin{funcdesc}{asctime}{tuple} @@ -250,9 +250,9 @@ precision than 1 second. \end{funcdesc} \begin{datadesc}{timezone} -The offset of the local (non-DST) timezone, in seconds west of the 0th -meridian (i.e. negative in most of Western Europe, positive in the US, -zero in the UK). +The offset of the local (non-DST) timezone, in seconds west of UTC +(i.e. negative in most of Western Europe, positive in the US, zero in +the UK). \end{datadesc} \begin{datadesc}{tzname} |