Module Name: src
Committed By: wiz
Date: Sun May 30 07:57:08 UTC 2010
Modified Files:
src/lib/libc/time: zic.8
Log Message:
New sentence, new line.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.17 -r1.18 src/lib/libc/time/zic.8
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Modified files:
Index: src/lib/libc/time/zic.8
diff -u src/lib/libc/time/zic.8:1.17 src/lib/libc/time/zic.8:1.18
--- src/lib/libc/time/zic.8:1.17 Fri Jan 8 19:20:21 2010
+++ src/lib/libc/time/zic.8 Sun May 30 07:57:08 2010
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: zic.8,v 1.17 2010/01/08 19:20:21 joerg Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: zic.8,v 1.18 2010/05/30 07:57:08 wiz Exp $
.\" @(#)zic.8 7.22
.Dd December 20, 2003
.Dt ZIC 8
@@ -369,25 +369,31 @@
.El
.Pp
In this example, the zone is named Europe/Zurich but it has an alias
-as Switzerland. Zurich was 34 minutes and 8 seconds west of GMT until
+as Switzerland.
+Zurich was 34 minutes and 8 seconds west of GMT until
1848-09-12 at 00:00, when the offset changed to 29 minutes and 44
-seconds. After 1894-06-01 at 00:00 Swiss daylight saving rules (defined
+seconds.
+After 1894-06-01 at 00:00 Swiss daylight saving rules (defined
with lines beginning with "Rule Swiss") apply, and the GMT offset
-became one hour. From 1981 to the present, EU daylight saving rules have
+became one hour.
+From 1981 to the present, EU daylight saving rules have
applied, and the UTC offset has remained at one hour.
.Pp
In 1940, daylight saving time applied from November 2 at 00:00 to
-December 31 at 00:00. In 1941 and 1942, daylight saving time applied
+December 31 at 00:00.
+In 1941 and 1942, daylight saving time applied
from the first Sunday in May at 02:00 to the first Sunday in October
at 00:00.
The pre-1981 EU daylight-saving rules have no effect
-here, but are included for completeness. Since 1981, daylight
+here, but are included for completeness.
+Since 1981, daylight
saving has begun on the last Sunday in March at 01:00 UTC.
Until 1995 it ended the last Sunday in September at 01:00 UTC,
but this changed to the last Sunday in October starting in 1996.
.Pp
For purposes of
-display, "LMT" and "BMT" were initially used, respectively. Since
+display, "LMT" and "BMT" were initially used, respectively.
+Since
Swiss rules and later EU rules were applied, the display name for the
timezone has been CET for standard time and CEST for daylight saving
time.
