[Bug 68861] New: Man page strftime Confusingly Refers to Weekday Rather than Day of Week

[Bug 68861] New: Man page strftime Confusingly Refers to Weekday Rather than Day of Week

[bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/ihj7yzEB+6BGkLq7r]

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/vQLgFONoPN62D2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org
          Reporter: bedens-lndS8KVcD7rQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org
        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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[Bug 68861] Man page strftime Confusingly Refers to Weekday Rather than Day of Week

[bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/ihj7yzEB+6BGkLq7r]

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

--- Comment #1 from Brandon Edens <bedens-lndS8KVcD7rQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> ---
Created attachment 122331
  --> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=122331&action=edit
Patch to man-pages archive.

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[Bug 68861] Man page strftime Confusingly Refers to Weekday Rather than Day of Week

[bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/ihj7yzEB+6BGkLq7r]

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

--- Comment #2 from Brandon Edens <bedens-lndS8KVcD7rQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> ---
Created attachment 122341
  --> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=122341&action=edit
Patch to man-pages-posix archive.

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[Bug 68861] Man page strftime Confusingly Refers to Weekday Rather than Day of Week

[bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/ihj7yzEB+6BGkLq7r]

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

Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
         Resolution|---                         |CODE_FIX

--- Comment #3 from Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> ---
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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[Bug 68861] Man page strftime Confusingly Refers to Weekday Rather than Day of Week

[bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/ihj7yzEB+6BGkLq7r]

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

--- Comment #4 from Brandon Edens <bedens-lndS8KVcD7rQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> ---
That's great. Thanks Michael.

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