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To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: date(1) 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> The documentation's inadequate.  Sure, it points to environ(7), but
> since TZ is almost never used in BSD, there's a tendency to think
> it'll be like a System V TZ, which is completely different.  How about
> adding:
> 
> --- /usr/share/man/man1/date.1.orig     Fri Aug  1 04:13:12 1997
> +++ /usr/share/man/man1/date.1  Fri Aug  1 14:54:38 1997
> @@ -171,6 +171,11 @@
>  .Bl -tag -width Ds
>  .It Ev TZ
>  The timezone to use when displaying dates.
> +The normal format is a pathname relative to
> +.Dq Pa /usr/share/zoneinfo .
> +For example, the command
> +.Dq env TZ=America/Los_Angeles date
> +displays the current time in California.
>  See
>  .Xr environ 7
>  for more information.

But this is already mentioned in environ(7).

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