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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1998-02-18 21:47:29 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1998-02-18 21:47:29 (GMT) |
| commit | 026d9626dfca51a6cd72a18c32f38f69db2e601d (patch) | |
| tree | 127ff5b5d0321b3ca6486e48f29801c5a00c01d6 | |
| parent | 4186cd3df2cfe21fda698a384cb28123e2e6ca32 (diff) | |
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Consistent spelling: "time zone" -> "timezone".
Clarify that the sign of the timezone offset returned by
parsedate_tz() is the opposite of time.timezone.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/librfc822.tex | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/librfc822.tex | 9 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/librfc822.tex b/Doc/lib/librfc822.tex index 4e65e91..aa7e459 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/librfc822.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/librfc822.tex @@ -43,8 +43,11 @@ returned. Performs the same function as \code{parsedate()}, but returns either \code{None} or a 10-tuple; the first 9 elements make up a tuple that can be passed directly to \code{time.mktime()}, and the tenth is the -offset of the date's time zone from UTC (which is the official term -for Greenwich Mean Time). +offset of the date's timezone from UTC (which is the official term +for Greenwich Mean Time). (Note that the sign of the timezone offset +is the opposite of the sign of the \code{time.timezone} variable for +the same timezone; the latter variable follows the \POSIX{} standard +while this module follows \rfc{822}.) \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{mktime_tz}{tuple} @@ -131,7 +134,7 @@ function may occasionally yield an incorrect result. Retrieve a header using \code{getheader} and parse it into a 10-tuple; the first 9 elements will make a tuple compatible with \code{time.mktime()}, and the 10th is a number giving the offset of -the date's time zone from UTC. Similarly to \code{getdate()}, if +the date's timezone from UTC. Similarly to \code{getdate()}, if there is no header matching \var{name}, or it is unparsable, return \code{None}. \end{funcdesc} diff --git a/Doc/librfc822.tex b/Doc/librfc822.tex index 4e65e91..aa7e459 100644 --- a/Doc/librfc822.tex +++ b/Doc/librfc822.tex @@ -43,8 +43,11 @@ returned. Performs the same function as \code{parsedate()}, but returns either \code{None} or a 10-tuple; the first 9 elements make up a tuple that can be passed directly to \code{time.mktime()}, and the tenth is the -offset of the date's time zone from UTC (which is the official term -for Greenwich Mean Time). +offset of the date's timezone from UTC (which is the official term +for Greenwich Mean Time). (Note that the sign of the timezone offset +is the opposite of the sign of the \code{time.timezone} variable for +the same timezone; the latter variable follows the \POSIX{} standard +while this module follows \rfc{822}.) \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{mktime_tz}{tuple} @@ -131,7 +134,7 @@ function may occasionally yield an incorrect result. Retrieve a header using \code{getheader} and parse it into a 10-tuple; the first 9 elements will make a tuple compatible with \code{time.mktime()}, and the 10th is a number giving the offset of -the date's time zone from UTC. Similarly to \code{getdate()}, if +the date's timezone from UTC. Similarly to \code{getdate()}, if there is no header matching \var{name}, or it is unparsable, return \code{None}. \end{funcdesc} |