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diff --git a/doc/getdate.texi b/doc/getdate.texi index 07a85ced1..ced1414ad 100644 --- a/doc/getdate.texi +++ b/doc/getdate.texi @@ -35,13 +35,13 @@ programs accept. These are the strings you, as a user, can supply as arguments to the various programs. The C interface (via the @code{getdate} function) is not described here. -@cindex beginning of time, for @sc{posix} -@cindex epoch, for @sc{posix} +@cindex beginning of time, for @acronym{POSIX} +@cindex epoch, for @acronym{POSIX} Although the date syntax here can represent any possible time since the year zero, computer integers often cannot represent such a wide range of -time. On @sc{posix} systems, the clock starts at 1970-01-01 00:00:00 -@sc{utc}: @sc{posix} does not require support for times before the -@sc{posix} Epoch and times far in the future. Traditional Unix systems +time. On @acronym{POSIX} systems, the clock starts at 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +@sc{utc}: @acronym{POSIX} does not require support for times before the +@acronym{POSIX} Epoch and times far in the future. Traditional Unix systems have 32-bit signed @code{time_t} and can represent times from 1901-12-13 20:45:52 through 2038-01-19 03:14:07 @sc{utc}. Systems with 64-bit signed @code{time_t} can represent all the times in the known |