Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 21:53:41 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), brian@awfulhak.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: date(1) Message-ID: <199708102053.VAA22190@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Aug 1997 14:56:21 %2B0930." <199708010526.OAA08967@freebie.lemis.com>
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> The documentation's inadequate. Sure, it points to environ(7), but
> since TZ is almost never used in BSD, there's a tendency to think
> it'll be like a System V TZ, which is completely different. How about
> adding:
>
> --- /usr/share/man/man1/date.1.orig Fri Aug 1 04:13:12 1997
> +++ /usr/share/man/man1/date.1 Fri Aug 1 14:54:38 1997
> @@ -171,6 +171,11 @@
> .Bl -tag -width Ds
> .It Ev TZ
> The timezone to use when displaying dates.
> +The normal format is a pathname relative to
> +.Dq Pa /usr/share/zoneinfo .
> +For example, the command
> +.Dq env TZ=America/Los_Angeles date
> +displays the current time in California.
> See
> .Xr environ 7
> for more information.
But this is already mentioned in environ(7).
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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