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Subject: Re: Phrasing to consider (non-technical)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:56:40 -0500
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 02:50:22PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/static/datatype-datetime.html
> Description:
>
> On the page for Data Types - DateTime, there is this part of a sentence:
>
> "....so the same time zone names are also recognized by much other
> software."
>
> The phrase of "much other software" is what caught me. An optional
> replacement would be: "many other software systems." or "multiple software
> packages."
>
> "much" has a connotation that doesn't fit here as well as "many" or
> "multiple" would.
>
> Thanks for the documentation. It has been very helpful in clarifying some
> things.
I just went with simpler text, patch attached and backpatched.
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[text/x-diff] zone.diff (857B, 2-zone.diff)
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
new file mode 100644
index cae3fa9..8a7a695
*** a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
--- b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
*************** January 8 04:05:06 1999 PST
*** 2411,2417 ****
linkend="view-pg-timezone-names"/>).
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> uses the widely-used IANA
time zone data for this purpose, so the same time zone
! names are also recognized by much other software.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
--- 2411,2417 ----
linkend="view-pg-timezone-names"/>).
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> uses the widely-used IANA
time zone data for this purpose, so the same time zone
! names are also recognized other software.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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