On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 at 20:37, Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, Paul, > > On 11/22/22 21:31, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > > 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. > > Thanks! > > > > >> 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 > > Ahh, I remember last time I wanted to check the source code I desisted because > there's no git repository, and I didn't want to be messing with tarballs. But > getting the pages from the tarball seems easy, so I'll do that. > > Paul, do you have a public git (or whatever) repository that I can check out? It looks like there are a few local changes such as replacing "degrees" with the degrees symbol, which should probably be preserved rather than overwritten by a sync. So it's not just as simple as overwriting with the upstream copy. I can try to look into it, but it won't be very soon.
