Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I think it would be helpful if the manual said something like this. Even > coreutils.info just says (in a fairly buried place) "Normally, `date' > operates in the time zone indicated by `TZ', or the system default if > `TZ' is not set", without giving any indication of exactly how $TZ > indicates. I found this unhelpful and frustrating.
The coreutils info page can't just say "run tzconfig" because that only applies to glibc systems, whereas coreutils is used on many other platforms as well -- and they all have different ways of setting the system time zone. Welcome to portable software, where documenting anything system-specific in a generic way is difficult if not impossible, unless you want to resort to a long list of "On Linux, do this; On Solaris, do this; On IRIX, do this; On HP-UX, do this; On Darwin, do this; On FreeBSD, do this; On Windows, do this." Brian _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
