Module Name: src
Committed By: pgoyette
Date: Thu Apr 18 11:20:17 UTC 2019
Modified Files:
src/lib/libc/time: tzset.3
Log Message:
Note restrictions on return values from tzgetname() and tzgmtoff()
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.39 -r1.40 src/lib/libc/time/tzset.3
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Index: src/lib/libc/time/tzset.3
diff -u src/lib/libc/time/tzset.3:1.39 src/lib/libc/time/tzset.3:1.40
--- src/lib/libc/time/tzset.3:1.39 Fri Oct 19 23:05:35 2018
+++ src/lib/libc/time/tzset.3 Thu Apr 18 11:20:17 2019
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: tzset.3,v 1.39 2018/10/19 23:05:35 christos Exp $
-.Dd October 19, 2018
+.\" $NetBSD: tzset.3,v 1.40 2019/04/18 11:20:17 pgoyette Exp $
+.Dd April 18, 2019
.Dt TZSET 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -89,6 +89,12 @@ is set to
.Va 1
the call is equivalent to
.Va tzname[1] .
+The return values for both
+.Fn tzgetname
+and
+.Fn tzgmtoff
+correspond to the latest time for which data is available, even if that
+refers to a future time.
Finally, the
.Fn tzgetgmtoff
function acts like
@@ -424,6 +430,13 @@ The
.Fn tzset
function conforms to
.St -p1003.1-88 .
+.Sh BUGS
+Neither the
+.Fn tzgetname
+nor
+.Fn tzgmtoff
+functions have the ability to specify the point in time for which the
+requested data should be returned.
.\" @(#)newtzset.3 8.2
.\" This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
.\" 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
