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tzset.3: Add 'std' quoting information

PATCH Applied J William Piggott 2 participants 2 messages Mar 14, 2015 – Mar 22, 2015 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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PATCH 1/1 tzset.3: Add 'std' quoting information

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The following changes since commit f6d086878485f63e390d10f59b6beae7b96c4120:

host.conf.5: grfix (2015-03-10 08:19:07 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:

git-9UaJU3cA/F/[email protected]:jwpi/man-pages.git tzset4

for you to fetch changes up to 5667215d996032e6cc8616039082a48adda0d01b:

tzset.3: Add 'std' quoting information (2015-03-14 15:42:28 -0400)

 man3/tzset.3 | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
man3/tzset.3 +4 -1
index 2eec8a3..f09ba9f 100644
@@ -99,8 +99,11 @@ timezone to be used:
 .RE
 .sp
 There are no spaces in the specification.
-The \fIstd\fP string specifies the name of the timezone and must be
+The \fIstd\fP string specifies an abbreviation for the timezone and must be
 three or more alphabetic characters.
+When enclosed between the less-than (<) and greater-than (>) signs, the
+characters set is expanded to include the plus (+) sign, the minus (-)
+sign, and digits.
 The \fIoffset\fP string immediately
 follows \fIstd\fP and specifies the time value to be added to the local
 time to get Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

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Quoted 2 lines · J William Piggott

Thanks! Applied.

Cheers,

Michael

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The following changes since commit f6d086878485f63e390d10f59b6beae7b96c4120:

host.conf.5: grfix (2015-03-10 08:19:07 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:

git-9UaJU3cA/F/[email protected]:jwpi/man-pages.git tzset4

for you to fetch changes up to 5667215d996032e6cc8616039082a48adda0d01b:

tzset.3: Add 'std' quoting information (2015-03-14 15:42:28 -0400)

 man3/tzset.3 | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
man3/tzset.3 +4 -1
index 2eec8a3..f09ba9f 100644
@@ -99,8 +99,11 @@ timezone to be used:
 .RE
 .sp
 There are no spaces in the specification.
-The \fIstd\fP string specifies the name of the timezone and must be
+The \fIstd\fP string specifies an abbreviation for the timezone and must be
 three or more alphabetic characters.
+When enclosed between the less-than (<) and greater-than (>) signs, the
+characters set is expanded to include the plus (+) sign, the minus (-)
+sign, and digits.
 The \fIoffset\fP string immediately
 follows \fIstd\fP and specifies the time value to be added to the local
 time to get Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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