From: J William Piggott <elseifthen@gmx.com>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] hwclock: improve man-page language
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 07:55:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54E1E8C3.30704@gmx.com> (raw)
Signed-off-by: J William Piggott <elseifthen@gmx.com>
---
sys-utils/hwclock.8.in | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in b/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in
index 7ddd2b1..b13be31 100644
--- a/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in
+++ b/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in
@@ -993,12 +993,13 @@ A discussion on date-time configuration would be incomplete without
addressing timezones, this is mostly well covered by
.BR tzset (3).
One area that seems to have no documentation is the 'right'
-directory of the Time Zone Database, aka tz, aka zoneinfo.
+directory of the Time Zone Database, sometimes called tz or zoneinfo.
.PP
There are two separate databases in the zoneinfo system, posix
and 'right'. 'Right' (now named zoneinfo\-leaps) includes leap seconds and posix
-does not. To use the 'right' database the System Clock must be kept in
-\%UTC\ +\ leap_seconds, i.e., \%TAI\ \-\ 10. This allows calculating the
+does not. To use the 'right' database the System Clock must be set to
+\%(UTC\ +\ leap seconds), which is equivalent to \%(TAI\ \-\ 10). This
+allows calculating the
exact number of seconds between two dates that cross a leap second
epoch. The System Clock is then converted to the correct civil time,
including UTC, by using the 'right' timezone files which subtract the
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