Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] time.7: tfix

["Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

On 1/29/22 23:59, наб wrote:
> "HZ" is the constant, and has nothing to do with the
> 50 Hz PAL/60 Hz NTSC mains frequencies
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
> ---

Patch set applied.

> Without doubt the frenchest thing I've read this year, and, IMO,
> a really untoward moral high horse from a document that double-spaces
> compound punctuation and calls the English Index "Index English";

I hadn't noticed the double-spaced thingy; quite weird, this document
is!  xD

> 
> (Also, hilariously, Annexe 2. Réalisation pratique des définitions des
>  principales unités est publiée uniquement sous forme électronique sur
>  le site Web du BIPM, but it's 404ing just 16 short years after
>  publication, which is very cool considering it's an /internal link/.)

Yup.  In version 9, they opted for a simpler thing (for the editor, not
for the reader): remove the link, and say it's somewhere on their
website :/.

> Nevertheless, I find it difficult to disagree in this case,
> spaces before the Hz do work better in this parenthetical
> (but I want to note that this is becasuse you pointed it out,
>  not because the French talked sense into me).

:-)

Cheers,

Alex

> 
>  man7/time.7 | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man7/time.7 b/man7/time.7
> index 830da7ea8..69d72af04 100644
> --- a/man7/time.7
> +++ b/man7/time.7
> @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ configuration parameter and can be 100, 250 (the default) or 1000,
>  yielding a jiffies value of, respectively, 0.01, 0.004, or 0.001 seconds.
>  Since kernel 2.6.20, a further frequency is available:
>  300, a number that divides evenly for the common video
> -frame rates (PAL, 25 HZ; NTSC, 30 HZ).
> +frame rates (PAL, 25 Hz; NTSC, 30 Hz).
>  .PP
>  The
>  .BR times (2)

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