Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:29:55 +0900 (JST) From: grog@lemis.com To: brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: date(1) Message-ID: <199708120229.LAA00484@papillon.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199708102053.VAA22190@awfulhak.org> from Brian Somers at "Aug 10, 97 09:53:41 pm"
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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). Greg
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