From 66f16068862a6b34be10c3343508785d83a9cefb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:04:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify 12am vs 12pm vs 12m. --- doc/tar.texi | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi index 68bb091..5706e95 100644 --- a/doc/tar.texi +++ b/doc/tar.texi @@ -6036,6 +6036,9 @@ or @samp{p.m.}), @var{hour} is restricted to run from 1 to 12, and indicates the first half of the day, @samp{pm} indicates the second half of the day. In this notation, 12 is the predecessor of 1: midnight is @samp{12am} while noon is @samp{12pm}. +(This is the zero-oriented interpretation of @samp{12am} and @samp{12pm}, +as opposed to the old tradition derived from Latin +which uses @samp{12m} for noon and @samp{12pm} for midnight.) @cindex timezone correction @cindex minutes, timezone correction by -- 2.44.0