Last batch of updates in response to 7.4 interactive docs comments.

doc/src/sgml/datetime.sgml

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  <appendix id="datetime-appendix">
@@ -190,11 +190,11 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datetime.sgml,v 2.44 2004/12/28 15:25:55 tgl Exp
 
    <para>
     <xref linkend="datetime-month-table"> shows the tokens that are
-    permissible as abbreviations for the names of the month.
+    recognized as names of months.
    </para>
 
     <table id="datetime-month-table">
-     <title>Month Abbreviations</title>
+     <title>Month Names</title>
      <tgroup cols="2">
       <thead>
        <row>
@@ -204,72 +204,69 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datetime.sgml,v 2.44 2004/12/28 15:25:55 tgl Exp
       </thead>
       <tbody>
        <row>
-	<entry>April</entry>
-	<entry>Apr</entry>
-       </row>
-       <row>
-	<entry>August</entry>
-	<entry>Aug</entry>
-       </row>
-       <row>
-	<entry>December</entry>
-	<entry>Dec</entry>
+        <entry>January</entry>
+        <entry>Jan</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
         <entry>February</entry>
         <entry>Feb</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
-	<entry>January</entry>
-	<entry>Jan</entry>
+        <entry>March</entry>
+        <entry>Mar</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
-	<entry>July</entry>
-	<entry>Jul</entry>
+        <entry>April</entry>
+        <entry>Apr</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+        <entry>May</entry>
+        <entry></entry>
        </row>
        <row>
         <entry>June</entry>
         <entry>Jun</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
-	<entry>March</entry>
-	<entry>Mar</entry>
+        <entry>July</entry>
+        <entry>Jul</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
-	<entry>November</entry>
-	<entry>Nov</entry>
+        <entry>August</entry>
+        <entry>Aug</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+        <entry>September</entry>
+        <entry>Sep, Sept</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
         <entry>October</entry>
         <entry>Oct</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
-	<entry>September</entry>
-	<entry>Sep, Sept</entry>
+        <entry>November</entry>
+        <entry>Nov</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+        <entry>December</entry>
+        <entry>Dec</entry>
        </row>
       </tbody>
      </tgroup>
     </table>
 
-    <note>
-     <para>
-      The month May has no explicit abbreviation, for obvious reasons.
-     </para>
-    </note>
-
     <para>
      <xref linkend="datetime-dow-table"> shows the tokens that are
-     permissible as abbreviations for the names of the days of the
-     week.
+     recognized as names of days of the week.
     </para>
 
      <table id="datetime-dow-table">
-      <title>Day of the Week Abbreviations</title>
+      <title>Day of the Week Names</title>
       <tgroup cols="2">
        <thead>
         <row>
          <entry>Day</entry>
-	 <entry>Abbreviation</entry>
+         <entry>Abbreviations</entry>
         </row>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
@@ -322,7 +319,7 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datetime.sgml,v 2.44 2004/12/28 15:25:55 tgl Exp
       <tbody>
        <row>
         <entry><literal>ABSTIME</literal></entry>
-	<entry>Key word ignored</entry>
+        <entry>Ignored</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
         <entry><literal>AM</literal></entry>
@@ -330,7 +327,7 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datetime.sgml,v 2.44 2004/12/28 15:25:55 tgl Exp
        </row>
        <row>
         <entry><literal>AT</literal></entry>
-	<entry>Key word ignored</entry>
+        <entry>Ignored</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
         <entry><literal>JULIAN</>, <literal>JD</>, <literal>J</></entry>
@@ -338,7 +335,7 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datetime.sgml,v 2.44 2004/12/28 15:25:55 tgl Exp
        </row>
        <row>
         <entry><literal>ON</literal></entry>
-	<entry>Key word ignored</entry>
+        <entry>Ignored</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
         <entry><literal>PM</literal></entry>
@@ -370,8 +367,9 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datetime.sgml,v 2.44 2004/12/28 15:25:55 tgl Exp
     <xref linkend="datetime-timezone-input-table"> shows the time zone
     abbreviations recognized by <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
     in date/time input values.  Note that these names are <emphasis>not</>
-    used for date/time output &mdash; display is driven by the currently
-    selected <xref linkend="guc-timezone"> parameter setting.  (It is
+    necessarily used for date/time output &mdash; output is driven by the
+    official timezone abbreviation(s) associated with the currently selected
+    <xref linkend="guc-timezone"> parameter setting.  (It is
     likely that future releases will make some use of <varname>timezone</>
     for input as well.)
    </para>