J William Piggott - [PATCH 1/1 V2] manual/time.texi: correct the zoneinfo path (original) (raw)

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• From: J William Piggott
• To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
• Cc: Roland McGrath , Paul Eggert
• Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 20:36:22 -0500
• Subject: [PATCH 1/1 V2] manual/time.texi: correct the zoneinfo path
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The 'new' data directory path is about to have its 21st birthday. The info page needs to celebrate with it.

glibc/ChangeLog.4:1828: Sat Jul 16 00:42:30 1994 Roland McGrath (roland@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu) * Makeconfig (datadir): Default to (prefix)/share,not(prefix)/share, not (prefix)/share,not(prefix)/lib. (sysconfdir): Variable renamed from etcdir. glibc/ChangeLog.4:1709: Fri Jul 29 01:50:37 1994 Roland McGrath roland@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu * Version 1.08.4.

Signed-off-by: J William Piggott elseifthen@gmx.com

ChangeLog | 5 +++++ manual/time.texi | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 50e8153..6fdcc2b 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2015-01-16 J William Piggott elseifthen@gmx.com + + * manual/time.texi: correct the zoneinfo path in the TZ Variable + node. + 2015-01-31 David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net

 * sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/bits/atomic.h

diff --git a/manual/time.texi b/manual/time.texi index 8a5f94e..74855ce 100644 --- a/manual/time.texi +++ b/manual/time.texi @@ -2509,11 +2509,11 @@ rule for choosing the default time zone, so there is little we can say about them.

@cindex time zone database -@pindex /share/lib/zoneinfo +@pindex /usr/share/zoneinfo @pindex zoneinfo If @var{characters} begins with a slash, it is an absolute file name; otherwise the library looks for the file -@w{@file{/share/lib/zoneinfo/@var{characters}}}. The @file{zoneinfo} +@w{@file{/usr/share/zoneinfo/@var{characters}}}. The @file{zoneinfo} directory contains data files describing local time zones in many different parts of the world. The names represent major cities, with subdirectories for geographical areas; for example,

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