Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 21:30:17 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: grog@lemis.com Cc: brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: date(1) Message-ID: <199708182030.VAA05198@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:29:55 %2B0900." <199708120229.LAA00484@papillon.lemis.com>
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> Brian Somers writes:
> >> 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).
>
> Sure, that's what I said at the top. But it's not obvious what the
> reference to environ(7) is for, and the usage of TZ is different
> enough from that of other UNIX systems that many people, myself
> included, don't expect it and thus don't look at environ(7).
Done (2.2 & current).
> Greg
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