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diff --git a/tz-how-to.html b/tz-how-to.html index e1e28f2e257d..9e438f93092a 100644 --- a/tz-how-to.html +++ b/tz-how-to.html @@ -548,8 +548,8 @@ a <code>SAVE</code> of zero. <ul> <li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database">tz -database</a> gives abbreviations for time zones in <i>popular -usage</i>, which is not necessarily “correct” by law. For +database</a> gives abbreviations for time zones +in popular English-language usage. For example, the last line in <code>Zone</code> <code>Pacific/Honolulu</code> (shown below) gives “HST” for “Hawaii standard time” even though the @@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ the abbreviations. They are intended to be the values returned through the function in the <a href="https://kirste.userpage.fu-berlin.de/chemnet/use/info/libc/libc_19.html#SEC324">“C” locale</a>. -<li>If there is no generally-accepted abbreviation for a time zone, +<li>If there is no generally accepted abbreviation for a time zone, a numeric offset is used instead, e.g., <code>+07</code> for 7 hours ahead of Greenwich. By convention, <code>-00</code> is used in a zone while uninhabited, where the offset is zero but in some sense |