Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 21:13:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Peter vs adjkerntz vs [most manpages] Message-ID: <20020720210405.G30465-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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I am having a really tough day at trying my damnedest to just RTFM...
Having already given up on "man ___" for X, XFree86, xdm, Xserver, Xinit
and feeling like I was being churned in circles, I decided to try to solve
the problem of my CMOS clock being set to GMT.
(By the way ~ When I run `man 7 X` as instructed from a "SEE ALSO," there
is no entry for it! *baffled looks*)
Can anyone out there honestly make sense of `man 8 tzsetup` ?!
And what is the point of the manpage listing all these other resources?
/etc/localtime current time zone file
/etc/wall_cmos_clock see adjkerntz(8).
/usr/share/misc/iso3166 mapping of ISO 3166 territory codes to names
/usr/share/zoneinfo directory for zoneinfo files
/usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab mapping of timezone file to country and location
Seems to me like manpages have a really bad habit of "hyperlinking" to
several other manpages that hyperlink back to whence you started from!
Now I know how my family's Apple II+ must have felt when we viciously typed
in BASIC for it to "10 GOTO 10."
--
Peter Leftwich
President & Founder
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