On 02/01/2015 02:16 PM, J William Piggott wrote: > > 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. Thanks, William. Applied. Cheers, Michael > 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 > -- 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
