From: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@davros.org>
To: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, Time Zone Mailing List <tz@iana.org>,
"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [tz] "time zone" vs "timezone" in documentation
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:14:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180622201457.GC56573@davros.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26348.1529693539@jinx.noi.kre.to>
Robert Elz said:
> Working out when an expression formed out of two words has turned into
> a new word is always something of a black art - yet it happens all the time.
The OED has "time zone" and, in citations, "time-zone", but not "timezone".
It's under "time", which was last updated in March 2012.
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2018-06-22 16:18 ` [tz] "time zone" vs "timezone" in documentation Paul Eggert
2018-06-22 18:21 ` Philip Paeps
2018-06-27 19:46 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-04 7:35 ` Walter Harms
2018-06-22 18:52 ` Robert Elz
2018-06-22 19:54 ` Paul Eggert
2018-06-22 20:14 ` Clive D.W. Feather [this message]
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