On 01/18/2015 09:10 PM, JWP wrote: > 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 Thanks, William. Applied. Cheers, Michael > 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 > -- 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
