From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 15:06:03 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Noted by Guido:
X-Git-Tag: v1.6a2~130
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d1a56f4235638b8b26639023557cd995d8fb89b2;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

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.
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libtime.tex b/Doc/lib/libtime.tex
index bca946d0b291..07fc1772dce3 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}