On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 at 19:22, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > > On 11/22/22 14:13, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 at 13:00, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 at 12:58, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> The description of the RULES field of a Zone line at: > >>> https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/zic.8.html#FILES > >>> seems garbled: > >>> "giving of the amount of time to be added to local standard time effect" > >>> > >>> It looks like it might be a copy&paste error from the similar text for > >>> the SAVE field of a Rule line. I think the first "of" and the "effect" > >>> should be removed, but I'm not sure if that's correct. > >> > >> This was introduced by > >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/man8/zic.8?id=5355e20f816e1e0af93d6bb80439e86f2d1c7be7 > >> so maybe it should be reported to tzdb upstream instead. > > > > It's already fixed upstream. The version in the tzdb-2022f package says: > > > > RULES The name of the rules that apply in the timezone or, > > alternatively, a field in the same format as a rule-line SAVE > > column, giving the amount of time to be added to local standard > > time and whether the resulting time is standard or daylight > > saving. If this field is - then standard time always applies. > > When an amount of time is given, only the sum of standard time > > and this amount matters. > > > > So here's a patch for the man page. There are lots of other changes in > > the upstream page though, so another sync might be useful. > > As you said, a sync would be better. However, I don't know how Michael did > that. Paul Eggert did it last time. > If you know where the page comes from, could you please prepare a patch > that does the sync, and document it in the commit message so that it's easier to > do it in the future? Upstream is https://www.iana.org/time-zones > > If you do that, please also sync tzfile(5) and zdump(8) in the commit. > > Thanks, > > Alex > > > --- > > $ cat MAINTAINER_NOTES > Externally generated pages > ========================== > > A few pages come from external sources. Fixes to the pages should really > go to the upstream source. > > tzfile(5), zdump(8), and zic(8) come from the tz project > (https://www.iana.org/time-zones). > > bpf-helpers(7) is autogenerated from the kernel sources using scripts. > See man-pages commits 53666f6c3 and 19c7f7839 for details. > > -- > <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
