From: "Dr. Tobias Quathamer" Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 01:25:30 +0100 Subject: tzfile.5 Add missing manpage section to timezone(3). Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann Reported-by: Alejandro Colomar Suggested-by: Alejandro Colomar --- man/man5/tzfile.5 | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/man5/tzfile.5 b/man/man5/tzfile.5 index a021859..fa215bc 100644 --- a/man/man5/tzfile.5 +++ b/man/man5/tzfile.5 @@ -208,6 +208,24 @@ if either .B tzh_timecnt is zero or the time argument is less than the first transition time recorded in the file. +.\" http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=122906#47 +.\" Reviewed by upstream and rejected, May 2012 +.SH NOTES +This manual page documents +.I +in the glibc source archive, see +.IR timezone/tzfile.h . +.PP +It seems that +.BR timezone (3) +uses +.B tzfile +internally, but glibc refuses to expose it to userspace. This is most +likely because the standardised functions are more useful and +portable, and actually documented by glibc. It may only be in glibc +just to support the non-glibc-maintained timezone data (which is +maintained by some other entity). +.\" End of patch .SS Version 2 format For version-2-format timezone files, the above header and data are followed by a second header and data,