On 01/18/2015 09:00 PM, JWP wrote: > Paragraph three of the DESCRIPTION section says > that when TZ is set, but empty, then UTC is used. > > Later it says if the TZ filespec is omitted then > the file /usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime is used. > This is incorrect, it will use UTC in that case as > well. Looks good to me, William. Thanks for the patch. Applied. Just one note on your patch titles: using the nested brackets "[PATCH[V2]...] causes these patches to apply a little strangely. Better would be something like "[PATCH V2 1/5]". Cheers, Michael > Steps to reproduce: > > cd /usr/share/zoneinfo/ > cp Antarctica/South_Pole localtime > cd > date > Sun Jan 18 10:59:50 EST 2015 > TZ=:Hongkong date > Sun Jan 18 23:59:56 HKT 2015 > TZ=:/usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime date > Mon Jan 19 05:00:03 NZDT 2015 > TZ=: date > Sun Jan 18 16:00:11 UTC 2015 > TZ=":" date > Sun Jan 18 16:00:18 UTC 2015 > TZ=':' date > Sun Jan 18 16:00:24 UTC 2015 > TZ=:/ date > Sun Jan 18 16:00:34 2015 > TZ=":/" date > Sun Jan 18 16:00:40 2015 > TZ="" date > Sun Jan 18 16:00:45 UTC 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 | 10 ++-------- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man3/tzset.3 b/man3/tzset.3 > index c1c98e1..36d2fd7 100644 > --- a/man3/tzset.3 > +++ b/man3/tzset.3 > @@ -170,14 +170,8 @@ from a file: > :[filespec] > .RE > .sp > -If the file specification \fIfilespec\fP is omitted, the timezone > -information is read from the file > -.I localtime > -in the system timezone directory, which nowadays usually is > -.IR /usr/share/zoneinfo . > -This file is in > -.BR tzfile (5) > -format. > +If the file specification \fIfilespec\fP is omitted, or its value cannot > +be interpreted, then Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is used. > If \fIfilespec\fP is given, it specifies another > .BR tzfile (5)-format > file to read the timezone information from. > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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
