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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/time/tzfile.5')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/time/tzfile.5 | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/time/tzfile.5 b/lib/libc/time/tzfile.5 index bafaf75f370..10818e881a6 100644 --- a/lib/libc/time/tzfile.5 +++ b/lib/libc/time/tzfile.5 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: tzfile.5,v 1.4 1997/01/14 03:16:51 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: tzfile.5,v 1.5 1998/01/18 23:24:59 millert Exp $ .TH TZFILE 5 .SH NAME tzfile \- time zone information @@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ tzfile \- time zone information .SH DESCRIPTION The time zone information files used by .IR tzset (3) -begin with bytes reserved for future use, +begin with the magic characters "TZif" to identify then as +time zone information files, +followed by bytes reserved for future use, followed by six four-byte values of type .BR long , written in a ``standard'' byte order @@ -17,7 +19,7 @@ These values are, in order: .TP .I tzh_ttisgmtcnt -The number of GMT/local indicators stored in the file. +The number of UTC/local indicators stored in the file. .TP .I tzh_ttisstdcnt The number of standard/wall indicators stored in the file. @@ -78,7 +80,7 @@ and a one-byte value for .IR tt_abbrind . In each structure, .I tt_gmtoff -gives the number of seconds to be added to GMT, +gives the number of seconds to be added to UTC, .I tt_isdst tells whether .I tm_isdst @@ -113,9 +115,9 @@ time zone environment variables. .PP Finally there are .I tzh_ttisgmtcnt -GMT/local indicators, each stored as a one-byte value; +UTC/local indicators, each stored as a one-byte value; they tell whether the transition times associated with local time types -were specified as GMT or local time, +were specified as UTC or local time, and are used when a time zone file is used in handling POSIX-style time zone environment variables. .PP @@ -132,6 +134,6 @@ is zero or the time argument is less than the first transition time recorded in the file. .SH SEE ALSO ctime(3) -.\" @(#)tzfile.5 7.5 +.\" @(#)tzfile.5 7.10 .\" This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of .\" 1996-06-05 by Arthur David Olson (arthur_david_olson@nih.gov). |