Hello Everyone, This is my first contribution to the linux-man project and I do not know what level of proof is required for changes, so I'll try to be brief. tzset.3 says that /usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime is used for the system timezone if TZ is not set. glibc does not use this file, and its Makeconfig comments discourages the use of it at all: # Where to install default configuration files. These include the local # timezone specification and network data base files. ifndef sysconfdir sysconfdir = $(prefix)/etc endif inst_sysconfdir = $(install_root)$(sysconfdir) # Where to install the "localtime" timezone file; this is the file whose # contents $(localtime) specifies. If this is a relative pathname, it is # relative to $(zonedir). It is a good idea to put this somewhere # other than there, so the zoneinfo directory contains only universal data, # localizing the configuration data elsewhere. ifndef localtime-file localtime-file = $(sysconfdir)/localtime endif As shown above the localtime file is in etc/ Further, the manual says if the TZ filespec is omitted it will use /usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime, but glibc actually will use UTC in that case, which the manual states in the third paragraph of the DESCRIPTION section. I made some other minor changes that I hopefully do not need to justify. Thank you J William Piggott (1): tzset.3: correct file paths and TZ use man3/tzset.3 | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------- 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-) -- 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
