[PATCH] tzset.3: Add 'std' quoting information

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Signed-off-by: J William Piggott <elseifthen@xxxxxxx>
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The following changes since commit f6d086878485f63e390d10f59b6beae7b96c4120:

  host.conf.5: grfix (2015-03-10 08:19:07 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:

  git@xxxxxxxxxx:jwpi/man-pages.git tzset4

for you to fetch changes up to 5667215d996032e6cc8616039082a48adda0d01b:

  tzset.3: Add 'std' quoting information (2015-03-14 15:42:28 -0400)

 man3/tzset.3 | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man3/tzset.3 b/man3/tzset.3
index 2eec8a3..f09ba9f 100644
--- a/man3/tzset.3
+++ b/man3/tzset.3
@@ -99,8 +99,11 @@ timezone to be used:
 .RE
 .sp
 There are no spaces in the specification.
-The \fIstd\fP string specifies the name of the timezone and must be
+The \fIstd\fP string specifies an abbreviation for the timezone and must be
 three or more alphabetic characters.
+When enclosed between the less-than (<) and greater-than (>) signs, the
+characters set is expanded to include the plus (+) sign, the minus (-)
+sign, and digits.
 The \fIoffset\fP string immediately
 follows \fIstd\fP and specifies the time value to be added to the local
 time to get Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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