hwclock: improve man-page language

Signed-off-by: J William Piggott <elseifthen@gmx.com>

diff --git a/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in b/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in
index 7ddd2b159d81ca249b83ed6034b3b42eaa73c09b..b13be31a2cd9c97ba7ced366046c05f1a120faff 100644 (file)
--- a/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in
+++ b/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in
@@ -993,12 +993,13 @@ A discussion on date-time configuration would be incomplete without
 addressing timezones, this is mostly well covered by
 .BR tzset (3).
 One area that seems to have no documentation is the 'right'
-directory of the Time Zone Database, aka tz, aka zoneinfo.
+directory of the Time Zone Database, sometimes called tz or zoneinfo.
 .PP
 There are two separate databases in the zoneinfo system, posix
 and 'right'. 'Right' (now named zoneinfo\-leaps) includes leap seconds and posix
-does not. To use the 'right' database the System Clock must be kept in
-\%UTC\ +\ leap_seconds, i.e., \%TAI\ \-\ 10. This allows calculating the
+does not. To use the 'right' database the System Clock must be set to
+\%(UTC\ +\ leap seconds), which is equivalent to \%(TAI\ \-\ 10). This
+allows calculating the
 exact number of seconds between two dates that cross a leap second
 epoch. The System Clock is then converted to the correct civil time,
 including UTC, by using the 'right' timezone files which subtract the