[PATCH] tzset.3: Add 'std' quoting information

[PATCH] tzset.3: Add 'std' quoting information

[J William Piggott]

Signed-off-by: J William Piggott <elseifthen-KK0ffGbhmjU@public.gmane.org>
---

The following changes since commit f6d086878485f63e390d10f59b6beae7b96c4120:

  host.conf.5: grfix (2015-03-10 08:19:07 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:

  git-9UaJU3cA/F/QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org:jwpi/man-pages.git tzset4

for you to fetch changes up to 5667215d996032e6cc8616039082a48adda0d01b:

  tzset.3: Add 'std' quoting information (2015-03-14 15:42:28 -0400)

 man3/tzset.3 | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man3/tzset.3 b/man3/tzset.3
index 2eec8a3..f09ba9f 100644
--- a/man3/tzset.3
+++ b/man3/tzset.3
@@ -99,8 +99,11 @@ timezone to be used:
 .RE
 .sp
 There are no spaces in the specification.
-The \fIstd\fP string specifies the name of the timezone and must be
+The \fIstd\fP string specifies an abbreviation for the timezone and must be
 three or more alphabetic characters.
+When enclosed between the less-than (<) and greater-than (>) signs, the
+characters set is expanded to include the plus (+) sign, the minus (-)
+sign, and digits.
 The \fIoffset\fP string immediately
 follows \fIstd\fP and specifies the time value to be added to the local
 time to get Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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Re: [PATCH] tzset.3: Add 'std' quoting information

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On 03/14/2015 09:06 PM, J William Piggott wrote:
> 
> Signed-off-by: J William Piggott <elseifthen-KK0ffGbhmjU@public.gmane.org>

Thanks! Applied.

Cheers,

Michael


> ---
> 
> The following changes since commit f6d086878485f63e390d10f59b6beae7b96c4120:
> 
>   host.conf.5: grfix (2015-03-10 08:19:07 +0100)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git-9UaJU3cA/F/QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org:jwpi/man-pages.git tzset4
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 5667215d996032e6cc8616039082a48adda0d01b:
> 
>   tzset.3: Add 'std' quoting information (2015-03-14 15:42:28 -0400)
> 
>  man3/tzset.3 | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man3/tzset.3 b/man3/tzset.3
> index 2eec8a3..f09ba9f 100644
> --- a/man3/tzset.3
> +++ b/man3/tzset.3
> @@ -99,8 +99,11 @@ timezone to be used:
>  .RE
>  .sp
>  There are no spaces in the specification.
> -The \fIstd\fP string specifies the name of the timezone and must be
> +The \fIstd\fP string specifies an abbreviation for the timezone and must be
>  three or more alphabetic characters.
> +When enclosed between the less-than (<) and greater-than (>) signs, the
> +characters set is expanded to include the plus (+) sign, the minus (-)
> +sign, and digits.
>  The \fIoffset\fP string immediately
>  follows \fIstd\fP and specifies the time value to be added to the local
>  time to get Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
> 


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