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Small fixes from mtk and Martin Schulze

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Michael Kerrisk 2004-12-01 14:10:12 +00:00
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.\" 386BSD man pages
.\" Modified Sun Jul 25 11:01:58 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.\" Modified 2001-11-13, aeb
.\" Modified 2004-12-01 mtk and Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
.\"
.TH TZSET 3 2001-11-13 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
tzset, tzname, timezone, daylight \- initialize time conversion information
@ -152,7 +154,7 @@ is a symlink to the file
.I localtime
or to the correct time zone file in the system time zone directory.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3
SVID 3, POSIX, 4.3BSD
.SH NOTES
Note that the variable \fIdaylight\fP does not indicate that daylight
savings time applies right now. It used to give the number of some
@ -160,7 +162,9 @@ algorithm (see the variable \fItz_dsttime\fP in
.BR gettimeofday (2)).
It has been obsolete for many years but is required by SUSv2.
.LP
BSD4.3 had a routine \fIchar *timezone(zone,dst)\fP that returned the
4.3BSD had a function
.BI "char *timezone(" zone ", " dst )
that returned the
name of the time zone corresponding to its first argument (minutes
West of GMT). If the second argument was 0, the standard name was used,
otherwise the daylight savings time version.