From: J William Piggott Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 12:55:31 +0000 (-0500) Subject: hwclock: improve man-page language X-Git-Tag: v2.26~20 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=440afddb1c5744a5a285405763ba01417f81ead7;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git hwclock: improve man-page language Signed-off-by: J William Piggott --- diff --git a/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in b/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in index 7ddd2b159d..b13be31a2c 100644 --- 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