Commit 3cd7b6db authored by Fred Drake's avatar Fred Drake

- remove a word from the string datatype description for clarity

- time-interval values are the number of seconds
parent 9fcbeef3
...@@ -860,14 +860,14 @@ The following data types are provided by the default type registry. ...@@ -860,14 +860,14 @@ The following data types are provided by the default type registry.
\term{\datatype{string}} \term{\datatype{string}}
Returns the input value as a string. If the source is a Unicode Returns the input value as a string. If the source is a Unicode
string, this implies that it will be checked to be simple 7-bit string, this implies that it will be checked to be simple 7-bit
\ASCII. This is the default data type for key values in \ASCII. This is the default data type for values in
configuration files. configuration files.
\term{\datatype{time-interval}} \term{\datatype{time-interval}}
A specification of a time interval, with multiplier suffixes (for A specification of a time interval in seconds, with multiplier
example, \code{12h}). Suffixes are case insensitive and may be suffixes (for example, \code{12h}). Suffixes are case insensitive
\samp{s} (seconds), \samp{m} (minutes), \samp{h} (hours), or and may be \samp{s} (seconds), \samp{m} (minutes), \samp{h} (hours),
\samp{d} (days). or \samp{d} (days).
\end{definitions} \end{definitions}
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