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| author | Bruce Momjian | 2007-02-01 19:10:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian | 2007-02-01 19:10:30 +0000 |
| commit | 8b4ff8b6a14096a28910fbff3d485f30dcb9a637 (patch) | |
| tree | c250f17f4a8e3bfee442970a0666431ed8310650 /src/timezone/zic.c | |
| parent | baaec74c5a953032049015883802660edd821cac (diff) | |
Wording cleanup for error messages. Also change can't -> cannot.
Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways:
may - permission, "You may borrow my rake."
can - ability, "I can lift that log."
might - possibility, "It might rain today."
Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as
in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better
choice. Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash".
Diffstat (limited to 'src/timezone/zic.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/timezone/zic.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/src/timezone/zic.c b/src/timezone/zic.c index af5fc36f152..08237965e4f 100644 --- a/src/timezone/zic.c +++ b/src/timezone/zic.c @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ * 1996-06-05 by Arthur David Olson (arthur_david_olson@nih.gov). * * IDENTIFICATION - * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/timezone/zic.c,v 1.20 2007/01/26 17:45:42 neilc Exp $ + * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/timezone/zic.c,v 1.21 2007/02/01 19:10:30 momjian Exp $ */ #include "postgres.h" @@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ dolink(const char *fromfile, const char *tofile) const char *e = strerror(errno); (void) fprintf(stderr, - _("%s: Can't link from %s to %s: %s\n"), + _("%s: Cannot link from %s to %s: %s\n"), progname, fromname, toname, e); (void) exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } @@ -831,7 +831,7 @@ infile(const char *name) { const char *e = strerror(errno); - (void) fprintf(stderr, _("%s: Can't open %s: %s\n"), + (void) fprintf(stderr, _("%s: Cannot open %s: %s\n"), progname, name, e); (void) exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } @@ -1566,7 +1566,7 @@ writezone(const char *name) { const char *e = strerror(errno); - (void) fprintf(stderr, _("%s: Can't remove %s: %s\n"), + (void) fprintf(stderr, _("%s: Cannot remove %s: %s\n"), progname, fullname, e); (void) exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } @@ -1578,7 +1578,7 @@ writezone(const char *name) { const char *e = strerror(errno); - (void) fprintf(stderr, _("%s: Can't create %s: %s\n"), + (void) fprintf(stderr, _("%s: Cannot create %s: %s\n"), progname, fullname, e); (void) exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } @@ -1863,7 +1863,7 @@ outzone(const struct zone * zpfirst, int zonecount) (void) strcpy(startbuf, zp->z_format); eat(zp->z_filename, zp->z_linenum); if (*startbuf == '\0') - error(_("can't determine time zone abbreviation to use just after until time")); + error(_("cannot determine time zone abbreviation to use just after until time")); else addtt(starttime, addtype(startoff, startbuf, @@ -2342,7 +2342,7 @@ mkdirs(char *argname) if (errno != EEXIST || !itsdir(name)) { (void) fprintf(stderr, - _("%s: Can't create directory %s: %s\n"), + _("%s: Cannot create directory %s: %s\n"), progname, name, e); ifree(name); return -1; |