Hello Peter, On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > according to [1], description of start/end format of TZ variable says: > ... > Jn > This specifies the Julian day, with n between 1 and 365. February 29 is > never counted, even in leap years. > n > This specifies the Julian day, with n between 0 and 365. February 29 is > counted in leap years. > ... > > This is correct and works. However, man page tzset(3) says: > ... > Jn This specifies the Julian day with n between 1 and 365. Febru‐ > ary 29 is never counted even in leap years. > > n This specifies the Julian day with n between 1 and 365. Febru‐ > ary 29 is counted in leap years. > ... > > For "n" format, interval should be "between 0 and 365". Attached patch is > solving this issue. > > Version of man pages: 3.35 > > > peter > > > [1] http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/libc/TZ-Variable.html Thanks. I applied your patch for man-pages-3.38. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- 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
