Date: Fri, 23 Feb 96 01:01:45 PST From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/1039: two different spellings of "timezone" Message-ID: <9602230901.AA01425@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu> Resent-Message-ID: <199602230910.BAA20914@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 1039 >Category: docs >Synopsis: two different spellings of "timezone" >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Feb 23 01:10:01 PST 1996 >Last-Modified: >Originator: David E. O'Brien >Organization: University of California, Davis >Release: FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386 >Environment: none. >Description: There are two different spellings for "timezone" used in the .Nd field of the .Sh NAME field in manpages. The two are "timezone" used by timezone(3) and "time zone" used by zdump(8), tzsetup(8), tzfile(5), etc. The problem is when you do a ``man -k timezone'' you will only get timezone(3). Doing ``man -k "time zone"'' is not as useful as it could be since it is inturpted as looking for keywords "time" OR "zone", not "time" AND "zone" -- thus generating more noise than is useful. I ran into this when I wanted to finally set my CMOS time to the local time where I am, and still have FreeBSD time stamp everything correctly. So I kept pursuing the manual using ``man -k'' to find the files/programs I need to deal with. >How-To-Repeat: man -k timezone man -k "time zone" >Fix: Convert "time zone" to "timezone", which IMHO is what more people would think of using with ``man -k''. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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