FILES section was overly verbose and included
environment variables. Added ENVIRONMENT section,
removing ENV VARS from the FILES section.
As stated in commit 2c7f200
/usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime
is not used, nor recommended by glibc.
Signed-off-by: J William Piggott <elseifthen@xxxxxxx>
---
man3/tzset.3 | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man3/tzset.3 b/man3/tzset.3
index 81fbabe..a9b088d 100644
--- a/man3/tzset.3
+++ b/man3/tzset.3
@@ -182,28 +182,27 @@ Here's an example, once more for New Zealand:
TZ=":Pacific/Auckland"
.fi
+.SH ENVIRONMENT
+.TP
+.B TZ
+If this variable is set its value takes precedence over the system
+configured timezone.
+.TP
+.B TZDIR
+If this variable is set its value takes precedence over the system
+configured timezone database directory path.
.SH FILES
-Under glibc,
-the system timezone directory is determined using the
-.BR TZDIR
-the environment variable.
-If
-.BR TZDIR
-is not set, the default depends on the system setup, but is normally
-.IR /usr/share/zoneinfo .
-.LP
-This timezone directory contains the files
-
-.nf
- localtime local timezone file
- posixrules rules for POSIX-style TZ's
-.fi
-.LP
-Often,
-.I /etc/localtime
-is a symbolic link to the file
-.I localtime
-or to the correct timezone file in the system timezone directory.
+.TP
+.B /etc/localtime
+The system timezone file.
+.TP
+.B /usr/share/zoneinfo/
+The system timezone database directory.
+.TP
+.B /usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules
+.PP
+Above are the current standard file locations, but they are
+configurable when glibc is compiled.
.SH CONFORMING TO
SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD.
.SH NOTES
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