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diff --git a/lib/pure/times.nim b/lib/pure/times.nim index 3e2557314..d8e466dc7 100644 --- a/lib/pure/times.nim +++ b/lib/pure/times.nim @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ The ``times`` module exports two similar types that are both used to represent some amount of time: `Duration <#Duration>`_ and `TimeInterval <#TimeInterval>`_. - This section explains how they differ and when one should be prefered over the + This section explains how they differ and when one should be preferred over the other (short answer: use ``Duration`` unless support for months and years is needed). @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ A ``TimeInterval`` represents an amount of time expressed in calendar units, for example "1 year and 2 days". Since some units cannot be normalized (the length of a year is different for leap years for example), - the ``TimeInterval`` type uses seperate fields for every unit. The + the ``TimeInterval`` type uses separate fields for every unit. The ``TimeInterval``'s returned from this module generally don't normalize **anything**, so even units that could be normalized (like seconds, milliseconds and so on) are left untouched. @@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ type years*: int ## The number of years Timezone* = ref object ## \ - ## Timezone interface for supporting `DateTime <#DateTime>`_\s of arbritary + ## Timezone interface for supporting `DateTime <#DateTime>`_\s of arbitrary ## timezones. The ``times`` module only supplies implementations for the ## systems local time and UTC. zonedTimeFromTimeImpl: proc (x: Time): ZonedTime @@ -2526,7 +2526,7 @@ when not defined(JS): ## because sub-second resolution is likely to be supported (depending ## on the hardware/OS). ## - ## ``getTime`` should generally be prefered over this proc. + ## ``getTime`` should generally be preferred over this proc. when defined(macosx): var a: Timeval gettimeofday(a) |