From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 18 20:41:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45DF437B401 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:41:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc12.attbi.com (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98BCC43F3F for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:40:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (be-well.no-ip.com[24.147.188.198]) by attbi.com (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20030619034058014004mdo1e>; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 03:40:58 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h5J3ew1V008552 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:40:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.6/Submit) id h5J3evDK008549; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:40:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f Sender: lowell@be-well.no-ip.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030618180212.C50362-100000@Video2Video.Com> <20030619012850.GO42940@klapaucius.zer0.org> <20030618213545.U16872@rocket.alienwebshop.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 18 Jun 2003 23:40:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030618213545.U16872@rocket.alienwebshop.com> Message-ID: <44y8zyu43a.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: [SDBUG] TZ X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 03:41:00 -0000 Peter Leftwich writes: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Gregory Sutter wrote: > > On 2003-06-18 18:04 -0700, Peter Leftwich wrote: > > > Well I'm sitting here typing "date" over and over but she doesn't appear. :) > > *lament* None of my fellow nerds have quite the sense of humour I expected! I suspect it's actually *you* who has less than the sense of humour you expected. Also, please remember that English is not the native tongue of many people here... > > I'd also like to help you find things on your system more easily. > > I suspect you don't know about the 'apropos' command (aka 'man -k'), > > which shows you short descriptions of system commands relevant to > > keywords you give it. In your example, 'apropos timezone' includes > > the correct results. Apropos isn't the greatest search tool ever > > but it usually gives you what you need if you search for the base(s) > > of your search needs. 'apropos zone' shows a small (usable) list, > > and even 'apropos time' works if you want to sort through a bunch > > of results. > > Yeah yeah yeah . . . I gave up after running `man timezone` and being told > about C functions that parts of the compiled OS use *smiles* You obviously *didn't* try "apropos timezone". > Does locate offer real-world "manpage examples" (which are badly-needed)? No. However, your patches will probably be enthusiastically accepted.