From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 20 18:13:26 2002 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 3859C37B400 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 18:13:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEC7F43E42 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 18:13:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F56129027 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 21:13:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 21:13:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Peter vs adjkerntz vs [most manpages] Message-ID: <20020720210405.G30465-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am having a really tough day at trying my damnedest to just RTFM... Having already given up on "man ___" for X, XFree86, xdm, Xserver, Xinit and feeling like I was being churned in circles, I decided to try to solve the problem of my CMOS clock being set to GMT. (By the way ~ When I run `man 7 X` as instructed from a "SEE ALSO," there is no entry for it! *baffled looks*) Can anyone out there honestly make sense of `man 8 tzsetup` ?! And what is the point of the manpage listing all these other resources? /etc/localtime current time zone file /etc/wall_cmos_clock see adjkerntz(8). /usr/share/misc/iso3166 mapping of ISO 3166 territory codes to names /usr/share/zoneinfo directory for zoneinfo files /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab mapping of timezone file to country and location Seems to me like manpages have a really bad habit of "hyperlinking" to several other manpages that hyperlink back to whence you started from! Now I know how my family's Apple II+ must have felt when we viciously typed in BASIC for it to "10 GOTO 10." -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message