tzset(3) currently states that there are three TZ formats. The first two it lists are actually variations of the POSIX-style TZ format, of which there are at least five variations. This patch corrects this to match the POSIX specification of TZ having only two formats. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.html Signed-off-by: J William Piggott <elseifthen@xxxxxxx> --- man3/tzset.3 | 21 ++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/man3/tzset.3 b/man3/tzset.3 index ed7f406..8002ee5 100644 --- a/man3/tzset.3 +++ b/man3/tzset.3 @@ -90,12 +90,12 @@ below, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is used. .PP The value of .B TZ -can be one of three formats. -The first format is used -when there is no daylight saving time in the local timezone: +can be one of two formats. +The first format is a string of characters that directly represent the +timezone to be used: .sp .RS -.I std offset +.RI stdoffset[ dst [ offset ][, start [ /time ], end [ /time ]]] .RE .sp There are no spaces in the specification. @@ -110,15 +110,6 @@ east. The hour must be between 0 and 24, and the minutes and seconds 0 and 59. .PP -The second format is used when there is daylight saving time: -.sp -.RS -.RI stdoffset[ dst [ offset ][, start [ /time ], end [ /time ]]] -.RE -.sp -There are no spaces in the specification. -The initial \fIstd\fP and -\fIoffset\fP specify the standard timezone, as described above. The \fIdst\fP string and \fIoffset\fP specify the name and offset for the corresponding daylight saving timezone. If the offset is omitted, @@ -161,7 +152,7 @@ and the changeovers happen at the default time of 02:00:00: TZ="NZST-12:00:00NZDT-13:00:00,M10.1.0,M3.3.0" .fi .PP -The third format specifies that the timezone information should be read +The second format specifies that the timezone information should be read from a file: .sp .RS @@ -175,7 +166,7 @@ If \fIfilespec\fP is given, it specifies another 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. If the colon is omitted each -of the above three \fBTZ\fP formats will be tried in order. +of the above \fBTZ\fP formats will be tried. .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
