On 01/29/2015 05:27 PM, J William Piggott wrote: > 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. Thanks, William! Applied. Cheers, Michael > 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 > -- 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
