hwclock: man-page errata
Professor Eggert, maintainer of the tz database, reviewed the new POSIX vs 'RIGHT' man-page section and suggested the following corrections. Correct the subdirectory names and remove IANA from the name of the Time Zone Database. Signed-off-by: J William Piggott <elseifthen@gmx.com>
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@ -993,10 +993,10 @@ A discussion on date-time configuration would be incomplete without
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addressing timezones, this is mostly well covered by
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.BR tzset (3).
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One area that seems to have no documentation is the 'right'
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directory of the IANA Time Zone Database, aka tz, aka zoneinfo.
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directory of the Time Zone Database, aka tz, aka zoneinfo.
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.PP
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There are two separate databases in the zoneinfo system, posix
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and 'right'. 'Right' (now named leaps) includes leap seconds and posix
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and 'right'. 'Right' (now named zoneinfo\-leaps) includes leap seconds and posix
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does not. To use the 'right' database the System Clock must be kept in
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\%UTC\ +\ leap_seconds, i.e., \%TAI\ \-\ 10. This allows calculating the
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exact number of seconds between two dates that cross a leap second
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@ -1013,13 +1013,13 @@ Files are never used directly from the posix or 'right' subdirectories, e.g.,
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This habit was becoming so common that the upstream zoneinfo project
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restructured the system's file tree by moving the posix and 'right'
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subdirectories out of the zoneinfo directory and into sibling directories:
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.PP
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.in +2
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.I /usr/share/zoneinfo
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.br
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.I /usr/share/posix
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.I /usr/share/zoneinfo\-posix
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.br
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.I /usr/share/leaps
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.I /usr/share/zoneinfo\-leaps
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.PP
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Unfortunately, some Linux distributions are changing it back to the old
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tree structure in their packages. So the problem of system
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