If the TZ filespec omits the leading colon, glibc will parse it for any valid format, i.e., it will still work. STEPS TO REPRODUCE: TZ=:Europe/Kiev date Sun Jan 18 20:19:13 EET 2015 TZ=Europe/Kiev date Sun Jan 18 20:19:20 EET 2015 Signed-off-by: J William Piggott <elseifthen@xxxxxxx> --- The following changes since commit b58839b96d626e67da233d4bf7ba04d5dfcd0e66: syscalls.2: Remove some details for sync_file_range2() (2015-01-18 19:56:05 +0100) are available in the git repository at: git@xxxxxxxxxx:jwpi/man-pages.git tzset for you to fetch changes up to 2b0725c0b6f6788628567ea4d5cfc396898584a0: tzset.3: TZ filespec omitts the colon (2015-01-18 14:40:21 -0500) man3/tzset.3 | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man3/tzset.3 b/man3/tzset.3 index b49c8ee..5c721b6 100644 --- a/man3/tzset.3 +++ b/man3/tzset.3 @@ -173,7 +173,8 @@ If \fIfilespec\fP is given, it specifies another .BR tzfile (5)-format file to read the timezone information from. If \fIfilespec\fP does not begin with a \(aq/\(aq, the file specification is -relative to the system timezone directory. +relative to the system timezone directory. If the colon is omitted each +of the above three \fBTZ\fP formats will be tried in order. .PP Here's an example, once more for New Zealand: .nf -- 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
