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manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): no tzfiles

Message ID 54DE935A.9040404@gmx.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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J William Piggott Feb. 14, 2015, 12:14 a.m. UTC 
  The timezone files are not installed since:

commit 482ff4dae91cf9a288284072d1a299868db7a634
Author: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 7 04:48:47 2012 -0500

	Don't install timezone rule files

2012-03-07  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@gmail.com>

	[BZ #6959]
	* timezone/Makefile: Don't install timezone files, just the programs
	and scripts.

Signed-off-by: J William Piggott <elseifthen@gmx.com>
---
 ChangeLog        | 5 +++++
 manual/time.texi | 6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Paul Eggert Feb. 14, 2015, 1:07 a.m. UTC | #1 
J William Piggott wrote:
> +zone.  @Theglibc{} is compatible with The IANA Time Zone Database,

I'd change "The IANA" to "the", as the database's own documentation calls it 
just the "Time Zone Database".
Carlos O'Donell Feb. 16, 2015, 6:08 p.m. UTC | #2 
On 02/13/2015 08:07 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> J William Piggott wrote:
>> +zone.  @Theglibc{} is compatible with The IANA Time Zone Database,
> 
> I'd change "The IANA" to "the", as the database's own documentation calls it just the "Time Zone Database".

Paul,

Please feel free to checkin the change with that modification
if you feel that makes the manual better and is an obvious
improvement.

Cheers,
Carlos.
J William Piggott Feb. 16, 2015, 8:29 p.m. UTC | #3 
On 02/16/2015 01:08 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 02/13/2015 08:07 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> J William Piggott wrote:
>>> +zone.  @Theglibc{} is compatible with The IANA Time Zone Database,
>>
>> I'd change "The IANA" to "the", as the database's own documentation calls it just the "Time Zone Database".
> 
> Paul,
> 
> Please feel free to checkin the change with that modification
> if you feel that makes the manual better and is an obvious
> improvement.

Carlos,

 I have already made the modifications and Paul reviewed them.
 v3 is in patchwork: [v3] manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): no tzfiles

 http://patchwork.sourceware.org/patch/5080/

Thank you,
William

> 
> Cheers,
> Carlos.
>
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 74d1a1a..8091c60 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ 
+2015-02-13  J William Piggott  <elseifthen@gmx.com>
+
+	* manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): timezone files are not
+	installed since commit 482ff4d.
+
 2015-02-13  Joseph Myers  <joseph@codesourcery.com>
 
 	[BZ #17569]
diff --git a/manual/time.texi b/manual/time.texi
index c8c7288..0b31d2b 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 IANA 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