Signed-off-by: J William Piggott <elseifthen@xxxxxxx> --- 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). -- 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
