Hi Helge, On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 10:46:25AM GMT, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Without further ado, the following was found: > > Issue: timezone → B<timezone>(3) > > "It seems that timezone uses B<tzfile> internally, but glibc refuses to " > "expose it to userspace. This is most likely because the standardised " > "functions are more useful and portable, and actually documented by glibc. " > "It may only be in glibc just to support the non-glibc-maintained timezone " > "data (which is maintained by some other entity)." You're right, but this is a Debian patch. I've CCed Tobias. I suggest transforming +It seems that timezone uses into +It seems that +.BR timezone (1) +uses Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx> Cheers, Alex alx@debian:~/src/debian/doc/manpages/debian/latest/debian/patches$ cat ./0010-tzfile.5.patch From: "Dr. Tobias Quathamer" <toddy@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 01:25:30 +0100 Subject: tzfile.5 --- man/man5/tzfile.5 | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/man5/tzfile.5 b/man/man5/tzfile.5 index 4aa3f6c..d0cefa9 100644 --- a/man/man5/tzfile.5 +++ b/man/man5/tzfile.5 @@ -210,6 +210,22 @@ if either .B tzh_timecnt is zero or the time argument is less than the first transition time recorded in the file. +.\" http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=122906#47 +.\" Reviewed by upstream and rejected, May 2012 +.SH NOTES +This manual page documents +.I <tzfile.h> +in the glibc source archive, see +.IR timezone/tzfile.h . +.PP +It seems that timezone uses +.B tzfile +internally, but glibc refuses to expose it to userspace. This is most +likely because the standardised functions are more useful and +portable, and actually documented by glibc. It may only be in glibc +just to support the non-glibc-maintained timezone data (which is +maintained by some other entity). +.\" End of patch .SS Version 2 format For version-2-format timezone files, the above header and data are followed by a second header and data, -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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