From patchwork Sat Feb 14 15:33:08 2015 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: J William Piggott X-Patchwork-Id: 5080 Received: (qmail 3174 invoked by alias); 14 Feb 2015 15:33:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Delivered-To: mailing list libc-alpha@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 3164 invoked by uid 89); 14 Feb 2015 15:33:21 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FROM, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mout.gmx.net Message-ID: <54DF6AB4.3020105@gmx.com> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 10:33:08 -0500 From: J William Piggott MIME-Version: 1.0 To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org CC: Paul Eggert Subject: [PATCH][v3] manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): no tzfiles X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; The timezone files are not installed since: commit 482ff4dae91cf9a288284072d1a299868db7a634 Author: Ulrich Drepper Date: Wed Mar 7 04:48:47 2012 -0500 Don't install timezone rule files 2012-03-07 Ulrich Drepper [BZ #6959] * timezone/Makefile: Don't install timezone files, just the programs and scripts. Reviewed-by: Paul Eggert Signed-off-by: J William Piggott --- manual/time.texi | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 2015-02-14 J William Piggott * manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): timezone files are not installed since commit 482ff4d. diff --git a/manual/time.texi b/manual/time.texi index c8c7288..b3620a8 100644 --- a/manual/time.texi +++ b/manual/time.texi @@ -2520,9 +2520,11 @@ subdirectories for geographical areas; for example, @file{America/New_York}, @file{Europe/London}, @file{Asia/Hong_Kong}. These data files are installed by the system administrator, who also sets @file{/etc/localtime} to point to the data file for the local time -zone. @Theglibc{} comes with a large database of time zone +zone. @Theglibc{} is compatible with the Time Zone Database, sometimes +called tz, or zoneinfo. This is a large database of time zone information for most regions of the world, which is maintained by a -community of volunteers and put in the public domain. +community of volunteers and put in the public domain. It is located at +@url{http://www.iana.org/time-zones}. @node Time Zone Functions @subsection Functions and Variables for Time Zones