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[v2] manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): no tzfiles

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JWP Feb. 14, 2015, 3:25 a.m. UTC 
The timezone files are not installed since:

commit 482ff4dae91cf9a288284072d1a299868db7a634
Author: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 7 04:48:47 2012 -0500

	Don't install timezone rule files

2012-03-07  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@gmail.com>

	[BZ #6959]
	* timezone/Makefile: Don't install timezone files, just the programs
	and scripts.

Signed-off-by: J William Piggott <elseifthen@gmx.com>
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 manual/time.texi | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

2015-02-13  J William Piggott  <elseifthen@gmx.com>

	* manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): timezone files are not
	installed since commit 482ff4d.

Comments

Florian Weimer Feb. 15, 2015, 1:10 p.m. UTC | #1 
On 02/14/2015 04:25 AM, J William Piggott wrote:
> 2015-02-13  J William Piggott  <elseifthen@gmx.com>
> 
> 	* manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): timezone files are not
> 	installed since commit 482ff4d.

Perhaps also mention in timezone/README that the files are only included
for use by the test suite?
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diff --git a/manual/time.texi b/manual/time.texi
index c8c7288..7285228 100644
--- a/manual/time.texi
+++ b/manual/time.texi
@@ -2520,9 +2520,11 @@  subdirectories for geographical areas; for example,
 @file{America/New_York}, @file{Europe/London}, @file{Asia/Hong_Kong}.
 These data files are installed by the system administrator, who also
 sets @file{/etc/localtime} to point to the data file for the local time
-zone.  @Theglibc{} comes with a large database of time zone
+zone.  @Theglibc{} is compatible with the IANA Time Zone Database,
+sometimes called tz, or zoneinfo.  This is  a large database of time zone
 information for most regions of the world, which is maintained by a
-community of volunteers and put in the public domain.
+community of volunteers and put in the public domain.  It is located at
+@url{http://www.iana.org/time-zones}.
 
 @node Time Zone Functions
 @subsection Functions and Variables for Time Zones