Not an English teacher, or even would-be teacher. I'm an electronics design engineer, but heavily involved with technical documentation for over 35 years. Anyone who's ever worked in high tech, especially on defense contracts, knows the extent of nitpicking over language and grammar that goes into drawing up technical specifications. I've also learned that in computer programming a single misplaced character in the source code can mean the difference between success and failure.
Reid Thompson wrote: > echo 'And here I thought "I" was the only English teacher crazy enough to use > Linux' | sed 's/crazy/smart/' Rod Johnson wrote: > And here I thought "I" was the only English teacher crazy enough to use Linux > :-D Bob Paver wrote: > Andrew, > > Are you a would be english teacher, as I am? I made the same correction just > recently. Perhaps you listen to the Grammar Girl podcasts as I do. > > Nitpicking away, > Bob > > On Mar 22, 2012, at 7:14 PM, Andrew Poth wrote: > >> Minor point, but it's properly called "Daylight Saving Time", not "Daylight >> Savings Time". >> >> The corrected lines would be: >> FSET _last(mo) "1 " + MON((mo%12)+1) + " --7" >> REM Sun Apr 1 ++2 UNTIL 1 Jan 2007 MSG Daylight Saving Time - %"DST starts%" >> %b >> REM Sun Mar 8 ++2 FROM 1 Jan 2007 MSG Daylight Saving Time - %"DST starts%" >> %b >> >> REM Sun [_last(10)] UNTIL 1 Jan 2007 ++2 MSG Daylight Saving Time - %"DST >> over%" %b >> REM Sun 1 Nov FROM 1 Jan 2007 ++2 MSG Daylight Saving Time - %"DST over%" %b >> >> Also, a correction on line 565 of the remind-03.01.12 WHATSNEW file might be >> considered. >> >> IS: >> daylight savings time >> >> SHOULD BE: >> Daylight Saving Time >> >> Source: http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/daylight-savings-time.html >> >> >> On 03/14/2012 08:29 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: >>> FSET _last(mo) "1 " + MON((mo%12)+1) + " --7" >>> REM Sun Apr 1 ++2 UNTIL 1 Jan 2007 MSG Daylight Savings Time - %"DST >>> starts%" %b >>> REM Sun Mar 8 ++2 FROM 1 Jan 2007 MSG Daylight Savings Time - %"DST >>> starts%" %b >>> >>> REM Sun [_last(10)] UNTIL 1 Jan 2007 ++2 MSG Daylight Savings Time - %"DST >>> over%" %b >>> REM Sun 1 Nov FROM 1 Jan 2007 ++2 MSG Daylight Savings Time - %"DST over%" >>> %b > _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans Remind is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind
