Paul Eggert wrote:
> We could distinguish "time zone" in the usual English-language sense (a set of 
> geographic locations that currently share the same standard time offset from 
> UTC) from "timezone" in the POSIX sense (a history and predicted future of UTC 
> offsets, abbreviations and isdst flags). If so, the tzdb documentation could be 
> more careful about using "time zone" for the former and "timezone" for the 
> latter, and this would make for fewer changes to the GNU/Linux man-pages for 
> tzdb. I can look into this and propose an updated set of tzdb-related patches 
> accordingly.

I've done that, plus a few other minor fixups, and have installed the attached 
proposed patches into the development tzdb repository on GitHub. I plan to 
follow up by emailing to linux-man a corresponding set of patches to the 
GNU/Linux man pages.