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| author | J William Piggott | 2015-02-16 13:55:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2015-02-19 10:54:02 +0100 |
| commit | 440afddb1c5744a5a285405763ba01417f81ead7 (patch) | |
| tree | 8bfe65a7187c68d79710b4032e83f47c2787ee3d /sys-utils/hwclock.8.in | |
| parent | libmount: remove assert(arg) from public functions (diff) | |
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hwclock: improve man-page language
Signed-off-by: J William Piggott <elseifthen@gmx.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/hwclock.8.in | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in b/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in index 7ddd2b159..b13be31a2 100644 --- a/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in +++ b/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in @@ -993,12 +993,13 @@ A discussion on date-time configuration would be incomplete without addressing timezones, this is mostly well covered by .BR tzset (3). One area that seems to have no documentation is the 'right' -directory of the Time Zone Database, aka tz, aka zoneinfo. +directory of the Time Zone Database, sometimes called tz or zoneinfo. .PP There are two separate databases in the zoneinfo system, posix and 'right'. 'Right' (now named zoneinfo\-leaps) includes leap seconds and posix -does not. To use the 'right' database the System Clock must be kept in -\%UTC\ +\ leap_seconds, i.e., \%TAI\ \-\ 10. This allows calculating the +does not. To use the 'right' database the System Clock must be set to +\%(UTC\ +\ leap seconds), which is equivalent to \%(TAI\ \-\ 10). This +allows calculating the exact number of seconds between two dates that cross a leap second epoch. The System Clock is then converted to the correct civil time, including UTC, by using the 'right' timezone files which subtract the |