Why is "civil" used to describe inexact time instead of "local" or "plain" or "naive" or something else?

[mispp]

As a followup to this question i was wondering where does the "civil" word come from?

Given that Jiff draws a lot of inspiration from Temporal, why wasnt the naming kept similar for concepts implemented in "civil"? Temporal went with "plain".

I'm asking because i find "civil" to be very weird and unintuitive word choice for something that is a local datetime. Intuitively, it feels that either "local" or "plain" would be a better choice.

[BurntSushi]

This was discussed extensively here: #12

I believe the first comment in #12 specifically answers all of your questions here.

[mispp]

sorry, i checked the discussions, but not the issues for this.

thanks for answering.