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Subject: Re: AM/PM, [was] Sexagesimal (was Newbie - Variation..)
From: Yves Arrouye (yves@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Feb 25 2002 - 13:52:34 EST
Ha ha! I found this (and the patch has been applied to the documentation
BTW):
Frank Donahoe <<EMAIL: PROTECTED>> pointed out that the GNU
tar documentation uses a notation for `noon` that contradicts the
old traditional notation, and that it`s worth pointing this out in
the manual to avoid confusion. Here`s a proposed patch.
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RCS file: doc/tar.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.12
retrieving revision 1.12.0.1
diff -u -r1.12 -r1.12.0.1
--- doc/tar.texi 1997/04/24 13:19:40 1.12
+++ doc/tar.texi 1997/10/27 15:04:02 1.12.0.1
@@ -6036,6 +6036,9 @@
indicates the first half of the day, @samp{pm} indicates the second
half of the day. In this notation, 12 is the predecessor of 1:
midnight is @XXX.XXX
+(This is the zero-oriented interpretation of @samp{12am} and @samp{12pm},
+as opposed to the old tradition derived from Latin
+which uses @XXX.XXX)
@cindex timezone correction
@cindex minutes, timezone correction by
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