From patchwork Mon Feb 16 23:34:38 2015 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Paul Eggert X-Patchwork-Id: 5097 Received: (qmail 24306 invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2015 23:34:42 -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 24294 invoked by uid 89); 16 Feb 2015 23:34:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, SPF_PASS, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: smtp.cs.ucla.edu Message-ID: <54E27E8E.2080204@cs.ucla.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:34:38 -0800 From: Paul Eggert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Carlos O'Donell , J William Piggott , libc-alpha@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): no tzfiles References: <54DE935A.9040404@gmx.com> <54DE9FB5.5070703@cs.ucla.edu> <54E2320A.40900@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <54E2320A.40900@redhat.com> Carlos O'Donell wrote: > Please feel free to checkin the change with that modification > if you feel that makes the manual better and is an obvious > improvement. Thanks, I installed the attached minor wording improvement; it's not exactly what was proposed, but it is a little more concise and should do the trick. From 09216abae71b5fb3890e5825558ccb3b2c289df6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:31:57 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] * manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): glibc no longer comes with tzdata. Problem reported by J William Piggott. --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ manual/time.texi | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index cde2c5a..540e997 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2015-02-16 Paul Eggert + + * manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): glibc no longer comes with tzdata. + Problem reported by J William Piggott. + 2015-02-16 Joseph Myers [BZ #17978] diff --git a/manual/time.texi b/manual/time.texi index c8c7288..f94cbe4 100644 --- a/manual/time.texi +++ b/manual/time.texi @@ -2520,7 +2520,8 @@ 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. The files typically come from the @url{http://www.iana.org/time-zones, +Time Zone Database} of time zone and daylight saving time information for most regions of the world, which is maintained by a community of volunteers and put in the public domain. -- 2.1.0