[Temporal] Clarify assumed defaults in language by making them explicit

[0xdevalias]

Description

• Tweaks the wording to explicitly clarify the assumed default of a positive integer when referring to year / month / etc.
• Replaces "monotonously" with "monotonically"

  • monotonous | məˈnɒtənəs |
    adjective
    dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest: the statistics that he quotes with monotonous regularity.

  • monotonic | ˌmɒnəˈtɒnɪk |
    adjective
    1 Mathematics (of a function or quantity) varying in such a way that it either never decreases or never increases.

• Tweaks to the wording to explicitly clarify the assumed default of 7 days in a week

Motivation

When I was first reading this section, I was confused as to why 'zero' and 'negative' were explicitly called out, but 'positive' wasn't; which made me wonder if 'negative' as actually intended, or a typo/etc.

Additional details

Based on request for review in:

• What's the plan to get Temporal docs into MDN? tc39/proposal-temporal#1449 (comment)

Related issues and pull requests

• Fixes [Temporal] Potential issue in docs: "year is an integer that may be zero or negative, which increases monotonously with time." #37996
• Fixes [Temporal] Explicitly mention 7 when talking about days in a week, rather than leaving it as an assumed 'default knowledge' #38000

[Josh-Cena]

Do you want to add your fix for the other issue to this PR too? And potentially anything else you want to add before we merge.

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Preview URLs

• /en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Temporal

(comment last updated: 2025-02-06 23:20:44)

[0xdevalias]

Do you want to add your fix for the other issue to this PR too? And potentially anything else you want to add before we merge.

@Josh-Cena Yeah sure, happy to do that. Wasn't sure if you'd prefer them separate or not.

Also just noticed one other tweak ("monotonously" vs "monotonically": 181cfdc) that I just fixed up here.

Give me a minute and I will add a fix for this too, then I'll be done:

• [Temporal] Explicitly mention 7 when talking about days in a week, rather than leaving it as an assumed 'default knowledge' #38000

[0xdevalias]

@Josh-Cena I have made all my changes for both issues now; nothing more I want to add before merge 🖤

[Josh-Cena]

Thanks! TIL that "monotonically" and "monotonously" are not synonyms.

[0xdevalias]

TIL that "monotonically" and "monotonously" are not synonyms.

Haha yeah. I didn't even notice that it was changed in the ChatGPT version at first; until I was making the localised changes in this PR and got confused why it said 'monotonously' (and went searching the git blame for when that change happened; till I realised it never existed and ChatGPT just made an additional fix to my sentence than I was expecting 😅)