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author | Tom Cosgrove <tom@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2004-09-01 20:54:48 +0000 |
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committer | Tom Cosgrove <tom@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2004-09-01 20:54:48 +0000 |
commit | e35d15441ce31453652911ab1c3ea834189fa7b7 (patch) | |
tree | aab3cb5bb4061d1466ba00a8003eeec8728d228e | |
parent | 1f44e4dd9170aa2a554bdbb455aa57380c7e6e2e (diff) |
Document DST option, and fix grammar nits in TIMEZONE description.
Closes PR 3906.
ok jmc@, miod@, millert@
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/options.4 | 20 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/options.4 b/share/man/man4/options.4 index 1b98d244c07..194bcd96e39 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/options.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/options.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: options.4,v 1.149 2004/07/31 21:27:31 brad Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: options.4,v 1.150 2004/09/01 20:54:47 tom Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: options.4,v 1.21 1997/06/25 03:13:00 thorpej Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1998 Theo de Raadt @@ -1067,19 +1067,31 @@ and/or .Xr apmd 8 . .It Cd option \&"TIMEZONE=value\&" .Ar value -indicates the timezone offset of hardware realtime clock device, in minutes, +indicates the timezone offset of the hardware realtime clock device, +in minutes, from UTC. -It is useful when hardware realtime clock device is configured with local time, +It is useful when the hardware realtime clock device is configured +with local time, when dual-booting .Ox with other operating systems on a single machine. -For instance, if hardware realtime clock is set to Tokyo time, +For instance, if the hardware realtime clock is set to Tokyo time, .Ar value should be .Li \&-540 as Tokyo local time is 9 hours ahead of UTC. Double quotes are needed when specifying a negative .Ar value . +.It Cd option DST=value +If +.Ar value +is non-zero, indicates that the hardware realtime clock device +is one hour ahead of the offset given in +.Sq TIMEZONE , +due to Daylight Saving Time (DST). +If +.Ar value +is zero, the hardware realtime clock device is not in Daylight Saving Time. .El .\" The following requests should be uncommented and used where appropriate. .\" .Sh FILES |