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Re: [PATCH] manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): no tzfiles
- From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, J William Piggott <elseifthen at gmx dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:34:38 -0800
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): no tzfiles
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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 <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
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 <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+ * manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): glibc no longer comes with tzdata.
+ Problem reported by J William Piggott.
+
2015-02-16 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
[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.
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