New: Man page strftime Confusingly Refers to Weekday Rather than Day of Week

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68861

Bug ID: 68861
Summary: Man page strftime Confusingly Refers to Weekday Rather
than Day of Week
Product: Documentation
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: low
Priority: P1
Component: man-pages
Assignee: documentation_man-pages-ztI5WcYan/[email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Regression: No

In several parts of the strftime page there are references to weekday which in several human cultures / locales specifies the set of the days of the week that are distinct from the set that represent the weekend.

To mitigate confusion, we propose that the man page text be modified so that the "weekday" text is changed to "day of week".

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--- Comment #1 from Brandon Edens <[email protected]> --- Created attachment 122331
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Patch to man-pages archive.

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--- Comment #2 from Brandon Edens <[email protected]> --- Created attachment 122341
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Patch to man-pages-posix archive.

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Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> --- Brandon,

Note that we can't patch the POSIX pages. they are supplied to us by the standards committee. You could try raising an issue with the Austin group; not sure how far it would get though, since POSIX has been using this term for a long time now.

However, I do agree with the point that there is ambiguity here, and I've applied a slightly modified version of your patch.

I've also made a similar change in the following pages:

getdate.3
strptime.3
locale.5

Thanks for the report.

Cheers,

Michael

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--- Comment #4 from Brandon Edens <[email protected]> --- That's great. Thanks Michael.

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