Re: [tz] [PATCH] The word "data" is plural.

Russ Allbery wrote:

The question is whether data is still treated as the plural of datum, or whether it's converted into being a mass noun in its own right.

Thanks for mentioning that. To try to head this dispute off at the pass the attached new patch (pushed into the experimental version) rewords everything so that the word "data" is never used in a context that requires it to be plural, or that requires it to be plural either.