From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 07:30:42 +0000 (+0200) Subject: man: explain why TZ=: is used X-Git-Tag: v247-rc1~145^2~7 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7fd897c51ceaa3ff5760025598387ad1208498cf;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git man: explain why TZ=: is used Also, reword the description a bit. "As a string" is meaningless in the context of commandline arguments, where evyrything is a string. This is not a strongly-typed programming language where 5 is a number but "5" is something completely different. Here both 5 and "5" are indistinguishable. The original text was trying to say that a location name should be given and not a number, so say "time zone location name". For #17177. --- diff --git a/man/homectl.xml b/man/homectl.xml index dd16e47bebf..732b7511ad0 100644 --- a/man/homectl.xml +++ b/man/homectl.xml @@ -299,11 +299,13 @@ TIMEZONE - Takes a timezone specification as string that sets the timezone for the specified - user. Expects a `tzdata` location string. When the user logs in the $TZ - environment variable is initialized from this setting. Example: - will result in the environment variable - TZ=:Europe/Amsterdam. + Takes a time zone location name that sets the timezone for the specified user. When + the user logs in the $TZ environment variable is initialized from this + setting. Example: will result in the environment + variable TZ=:Europe/Amsterdam. (: is used intentionally as part + of the timezone specification, see + tzset3.) +