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authorTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-11-10 20:58:21 +0000
committerTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-11-10 20:58:21 +0000
commitff0f140a8a0a90dc0f8fce8ba88cc276258cb9e0 (patch)
treefbd4201f138d021baabe32fcaf8fa2a1c157ffb1 /lib/libc/time
parent607d75aab567b945c7e90e1aab1b8bf5c929d756 (diff)
Document tzsetwall(). OK schwarze@ jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/time')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/time/tzset.331
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/time/tzset.3 b/lib/libc/time/tzset.3
index e5a7cfdb873..33bb84b2a87 100644
--- a/lib/libc/time/tzset.3
+++ b/lib/libc/time/tzset.3
@@ -1,14 +1,17 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: tzset.3,v 1.21 2015/10/11 21:30:02 schwarze Exp $
-.Dd $Mdocdate: October 11 2015 $
+.\" $OpenBSD: tzset.3,v 1.22 2015/11/10 20:58:20 millert Exp $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 10 2015 $
.Dt TZSET 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
-.Nm tzset
+.Nm tzset ,
+.Nm tzsetwall
.Nd initialize time conversion information
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In time.h
.Ft void
.Fn tzset "void"
+.Ft void
+.Fn tzsetwall "void"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Fn tzset
uses the value of the environment variable
@@ -22,8 +25,8 @@ the best available approximation to local wall clock time, as specified
by the
.Xr tzfile 5
format file
-.Em localtime
-in the system time conversion information directory, is used by
+.Pa /etc/localtime ,
+is used by
.Xr localtime 3 .
.Pp
If
@@ -236,6 +239,15 @@ environment variable does not specify a
format file
and cannot be interpreted as a direct specification,
UTC is used.
+.Pp
+.Fn tzsetwall
+behaves identically to
+.Fn tzset
+but it only uses the
+.Pa /etc/localtime
+file (that is, it ignores the
+.Ev TZ
+environment variable).
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width "/usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules" -compact
.It Pa /usr/share/zoneinfo
@@ -260,5 +272,14 @@ UTC leap seconds are loaded from
.Xr strftime 3 ,
.Xr time 3 ,
.Xr tzfile 5
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Fn tzset
+function
+conforms to
+.St -p1003.1-2008 .
+The
+.Fn tzsetwall
+function is an extension to that specification.
.\" This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
.\" 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.