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authorTom Cosgrove <tom@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-09-01 20:54:48 +0000
committerTom Cosgrove <tom@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-09-01 20:54:48 +0000
commite35d15441ce31453652911ab1c3ea834189fa7b7 (patch)
treeaab3cb5bb4061d1466ba00a8003eeec8728d228e
parent1f44e4dd9170aa2a554bdbb455aa57380c7e6e2e (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.420
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