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From: "Dr. Tobias Quathamer" <toddy@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 01:25:30 +0100
Subject: tzfile.5
---
man5/tzfile.5 | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man5/tzfile.5 b/man5/tzfile.5
index 04157b4..2da4a62 100644
--- a/man5/tzfile.5
+++ b/man5/tzfile.5
@@ -151,6 +151,22 @@ if either
.I 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 <tzfile.h>
+in the glibc source archive, see
+.IR timezone/tzfile.h .
+
+It seems that timezone 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 is followed by a second header and data,
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