From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D67CDC433F5 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2022 22:57:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1346418AbiA2W5t (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jan 2022 17:57:49 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:51010 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S243810AbiA2W5t (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jan 2022 17:57:49 -0500 Received: from mail-wm1-x335.google.com (mail-wm1-x335.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::335]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3B246C061714 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2022 14:57:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-wm1-x335.google.com with SMTP id bg21-20020a05600c3c9500b0035283e7a012so1750436wmb.0 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2022 14:57:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=message-id:date:mime-version:user-agent:subject:content-language :from:to:cc:references:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=WcIPaxpKuh1Mq0jUXR+J3Y58qMUneeDf1t4jFBMqPpA=; b=oPiDRxEjslz+usT03tjc78AGo7LlldjYHZG0pgZZ6fgGT7tzXEYGh+yGGeAqQ5b6gu 4sfQwfdS3LxfWu0zCpbVtYzw0aEGsOUY3zLLM4c/zr6Zf89ZZ8DDq2xiR6UjZJCSYs5/ S+x3VsWA9cOUA2AgrpduGWFOurCpCzVYYOAz+OL81pzn84td9mmIx6vPmsYzgpbW5V8f xk2lB2Qdx7MJw6PEMRsSIwg11KQOoM37oJLrPeFTxxtfVqGS9GLHYLZLbGfHcbzMICHc 1jHM+78CoTRo0GeoivHvo4FceM/qFqtlZNZEtRs380nop4H9Y5JTTtxvi1XxN6fpk5cB t8rg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:mime-version:user-agent:subject :content-language:from:to:cc:references:in-reply-to :content-transfer-encoding; bh=WcIPaxpKuh1Mq0jUXR+J3Y58qMUneeDf1t4jFBMqPpA=; b=un05urItpZkNbk/DYFD9D8B/3e8w8q65eYhXLd+SrSKqgvRmkedIBXv+8C5D+nOpvt EoGPSRR2iG09izrwNPMXyAi22WU+nrgSVB5ovuyfRdxVzvV3UbFj0pQNWMoUSlDHLhvP HmWeqboN4YZ6KcakbrJ8qsCCm1L8AW7GbJJjAlsKCBett/5vdlvNn59NmH3qGxqMBxE7 T/K2w6h9dBCL0BffQjzQgcftRiOGnS5u/fBt7j0wI91qs4arZtguSyazqawaSXM44y3V hnNrhPEhb1zOKk9BZa1SnbqLK37d5ROGOF58Fn+d/lDxzeLE152PwEZV9K4m88n+yfix MndA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM5333O5D1LNHqsaCaRSjlvP2u4TVNU8XT4gcuG3pl0winvdZen2hk lw9XiIUeq9DywfCPVhdjuOw= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxsz4g3ZnwvxDaEijVw3n+MWvASgbXL1iGjQv1JF19k014yPwhNvOCImR9EQUjumPN0Y+gG1g== X-Received: by 2002:a05:600c:3488:: with SMTP id a8mr21253935wmq.185.1643497067713; Sat, 29 Jan 2022 14:57:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.160] ([170.253.36.171]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a3sm9029413wri.89.2022.01.29.14.57.47 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 29 Jan 2022 14:57:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 23:57:46 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.5.1 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] time.7: tfix Content-Language: en-US From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" To: =?UTF-8?B?0L3QsNCx?= Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org References: <5b73149f-ff52-e0d9-fead-0fe2338b40cb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5b73149f-ff52-e0d9-fead-0fe2338b40cb@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 1/29/22 23:40, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > The change to lowercase is correct, but I'm not convinced by the removal > of the space. The SI says that there should be a space, and while there > are some cases where readability is considerably improved by removing > the space, I think this is not one of those. > I just found there's a newer SI version than the one I quoted. It doesn't change very much for what we want, but I'll quote the current one here for the sake of completeness/correctness: 5.3 Unit names Unit names are normally printed in upright type and they are treated like ordinary nouns. In English, the names of units start with a lower-case letter (even when the symbol for the unit begins with a capital letter), except at the beginning of a sentence or in capitali zed mater‐ ial such as a title. In keeping with this rule, the cor‐ rect spelling of the name of the unit with the symbol °C is “degree Celsius” (the unit degree begins with a lower- case d and the modifier Celsius begins with an upper-case C because it is a proper name). Although the values of quantities are normally expressed using symbols for numbers and symbols for units, if for some reason the unit name is more appropriate than the unit symbol, the unit name should be spelled out in full. When the name of a unit is combined with the name of a multiple or sub-multiple prefix, no space or hyphen is used between the prefix name and the unit name. The com‐ bination of prefix name and unit name is a single word (see chapter 3). When the name of a derived unit is formed from the names of individual units by juxtaposition, either a space or a hyphen is used to separate the names of the individual units. I'll add this link to the SEE ALSO section of units(7). Cheers, Alex -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/