Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx> --- man2/stime.2 | 2 +- man3/strftime.3 | 2 +- man3/tzset.3 | 4 ++-- man8/zic.8 | 8 ++++---- 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/stime.2 b/man2/stime.2 index 07fef5e..530d223 100644 --- a/man2/stime.2 +++ b/man2/stime.2 @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ _SVID_SOURCE .BR stime () sets the system's idea of the time and date. Time, pointed -to by \fIt\fP, is measured in seconds from 00:00:00 GMT January 1, 1970. +to by \fIt\fP, is measured in seconds from 00:00:00 UTC January 1, 1970. .BR stime () may only be executed by the superuser. .SH "RETURN VALUE" diff --git a/man3/strftime.3 b/man3/strftime.3 index 8dfe58c..e356ccb 100644 --- a/man3/strftime.3 +++ b/man3/strftime.3 @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ The year as a decimal number without a century (range 00 to 99). The year as a decimal number including the century. .TP .B %z -The time-zone as hour offset from GMT. +The time-zone as hour offset from UTC. Required to emit RFC\ 822-conformant dates (using "%a,\ %d\ %b\ %Y\ %H:%M:%S\ %z"). (GNU) .TP diff --git a/man3/tzset.3 b/man3/tzset.3 index ad496f7..1d74405 100644 --- a/man3/tzset.3 +++ b/man3/tzset.3 @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ environment variable. This function is automatically called by the other time conversion functions that depend on the timezone. In a System-V-like environment, it will also set the variables \fItimezone\fP -(to seconds West of GMT) and \fIdaylight\fP (to 0 if this timezone does not +(to seconds West of UTC) and \fIdaylight\fP (to 0 if this timezone does not have any daylight saving time rules, or to non-zero if there is a time during the year when daylight saving time applies). .PP @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ It has been obsolete for many years but is required by SUSv2. .BI "char *timezone(" zone ", " dst ) that returned the name of the timezone corresponding to its first argument (minutes -West of GMT). +West of UTC). If the second argument was 0, the standard name was used, otherwise the daylight saving time version. .SH "SEE ALSO" diff --git a/man8/zic.8 b/man8/zic.8 index 949fb62..8cb63bb 100644 --- a/man8/zic.8 +++ b/man8/zic.8 @@ -260,8 +260,8 @@ A zone line has the form .sp .nf .ti +.5i -.ta \w'Zone\0\0'u +\w'Australia/Adelaide\0\0'u +\w'GMTOFF\0\0'u +\w'RULES/SAVE\0\0'u +\w'FORMAT\0\0'u -Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES/SAVE FORMAT [UNTIL] +.ta \w'Zone\0\0'u +\w'Australia/Adelaide\0\0'u +\w'UTC_OFFSET\0\0'u +\w'RULES/SAVE\0\0'u +\w'FORMAT\0\0'u +Zone NAME UTC_OFFSET RULES/SAVE FORMAT [UNTIL] .sp For example: .sp @@ -270,13 +270,13 @@ Zone Australia/Adelaide 9:30 Aus CST 1971 Oct 31 2:00 .sp .fi The fields that make up a zone line are: -.TP "\w'GMTOFF'u" +.TP "\w'UTC_OFFSET'u" .B NAME The name of the timezone. This is the name used in creating the time conversion information file for the zone. .TP -.B GMTOFF +.B UTC_OFFSET The amount of time to add to UTC to get standard time in this zone. This field has the same format as the .B AT -- 1.6.5.2.180.gc5b3e -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html