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tzset.3: Document behavior when TZ filespec omits the colon 

If the TZ filespec omits the leading colon, glibc will parse
it for any valid format, i.e., it will still work.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
TZ=:Europe/Kiev date
Sun Jan 18 20:19:13 EET 2015
TZ=Europe/Kiev date
Sun Jan 18 20:19:20 EET 2015

Signed-off-by: J William Piggott <elseifthen@gmx.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -176,7 +176,8 @@ If \fIfilespec\fP is given, it specifies another
.BR tzfile (5)-format
file to read the timezone information from.
If \fIfilespec\fP does not begin with a \(aq/\(aq, the file specification is
relative to the system timezone directory.
relative to the system timezone directory. If the colon is omitted each
of the above three \fBTZ\fP formats will be tried in order.
.PP
Here's an example, once more for New Zealand:
.nf