Subject: lib/19007: Man page for strftime() should use UTC instead of UCT
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Christian Biere <christianbiere@gmx.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/10/2002 20:40:26
>Number: 19007
>Category: lib
>Synopsis: Man page for strftime() should use UTC instead of UCT
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: lib-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sun Nov 10 11:41:00 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Christian Biere
>Release: NetBSD 1.6J
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
The manual page for strftime uses the abbreviation UCT unlike other ones
like e.g. mktime(3) which use the correct abbreviation UTC. Although UCT
is not really wrong it's a non-standard abbreviation and raises
unnecessary confusion.
>How-To-Repeat:
man 3 strftime
>Fix:
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Index: strftime.3
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/basesrc/lib/libc/time/strftime.3,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -r1.16 strftime.3
--- strftime.3 2002/10/01 18:16:00 1.16
+++ strftime.3 2002/11/10 19:27:33
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
seconds is (00-61) instead of (00-59) to allow for the periodic occurance
of leap seconds and double leap seconds.
.It Cm %s
-is replaced by the number of seconds since the Epoch, UCT (see
+is replaced by the number of seconds since the Epoch, UTC (see
.Xr mktime 3 ) .
.It Cm \&%T
is replaced by the time in the format
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