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Document TZ better, and adjust to new getdate.texi.

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(pr invocation, Formatting file timestamps, touch invocation,
stat invocation, who invocation, date invocation, Options for date):
Mention TZ.
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Paul Eggert
2004-10-29 23:22:09 +00:00
parent caf82de4ba
commit df8ea7a4e8

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@@ -432,15 +432,16 @@ File permissions
Date input formats
* General date syntax: General date syntax
* Calendar date items: Calendar date items
* Time of day items: Time of day items
* Time zone items: Time zone items
* Day of week items: Day of week items
* Relative items in date strings: Relative items in date strings
* Pure numbers in date strings: Pure numbers in date strings
* Seconds since the Epoch: Seconds since the Epoch
* Authors of get_date: Authors of get_date
* General date syntax:: Common rules.
* Calendar date items:: 19 Dec 1994.
* Time of day items:: 9:20pm.
* Time zone items:: @sc{est}, @sc{pdt}, @sc{gmt}.
* Day of week items:: Monday and others.
* Relative items in date strings:: next tuesday, 2 years ago.
* Pure numbers in date strings:: 19931219, 1440.
* Seconds since the Epoch:: @@1078100502.
* Specifying time zone rules:: TZ="America/New_York", TZ="UTC0".
* Authors of get_date:: Bellovin, Eggert, Salz, Berets, et al.
Opening the software toolbox
@@ -2047,6 +2048,12 @@ and the @env{LC_TIME} locale category specifies the @acronym{POSIX}
locale, the default is @samp{%b %e %H:%M %Y} (for example,
@samp{Dec@ @ 4 23:59 2001}.
@vindex TZ
Time stamps are listed according to the time zone rules specified by
the @env{TZ} environment variable, or by the system default rules if
@env{TZ} is not set. @xref{TZ Variable,, Specifying the Time Zone
with @env{TZ}, libc, The GNU C Library}.
@item -e[@var{in-tabchar}[@var{in-tabwidth}]]
@itemx --expand-tabs[=@var{in-tabchar}[@var{in-tabwidth}]]
@opindex -e
@@ -5938,6 +5945,12 @@ today is not listed in recent form, the timestamp is in the future,
which means you probably have clock skew problems which may break
programs like @command{make} that rely on file timestamps.
@vindex TZ
Time stamps are listed according to the time zone rules specified by
the @env{TZ} environment variable, or by the system default rules if
@env{TZ} is not set. @xref{TZ Variable,, Specifying the Time Zone
with @env{TZ}, libc, The GNU C Library}.
The following option changes how file timestamps are printed.
@table @samp
@@ -8460,6 +8473,13 @@ Another operation that modifies a file's ctime without affecting
the others is renaming. In any case, it is not possible, in normal
operations, for a user to change the ctime field to a user-specified value.
@vindex TZ
Time stamps assume the time zone rules specified by the @env{TZ}
environment variable, or by the system default rules if @env{TZ} is
not set. @xref{TZ Variable,, Specifying the Time Zone with @env{TZ},
libc, The GNU C Library}. You can avoid avoid ambiguities during
daylight saving transitions by using @sc{utc} time stamps.
The program accepts the following options. Also see @ref{Common options}.
@table @samp
@@ -9011,6 +9031,7 @@ Print the information in terse form, suitable for parsing by other programs.
Use @var{format} rather than the default format.
Interpreted sequences for file stat are:
@itemize @bullet
@item %a - Access rights in octal
@item %A - Access rights in human readable form
@@ -9041,6 +9062,7 @@ Interpreted sequences for file stat are:
@end itemize
Interpreted sequences for file system stat are:
@itemize @bullet
@item %n - File name
@item %i - File System id in hex
@@ -9053,6 +9075,12 @@ Interpreted sequences for file system stat are:
@item %s - Optimal transfer block size
@item %c - Total file nodes in file system
@end itemize
@vindex TZ
Time stamps are listed according to the time zone rules specified by
the @env{TZ} environment variable, or by the system default rules if
@env{TZ} is not set. @xref{TZ Variable,, Specifying the Time Zone
with @env{TZ}, libc, The GNU C Library}.
@end table
@exitstatus
@@ -11185,6 +11213,12 @@ for the user running it (determined from its standard input), preceded
by the hostname. Traditionally, the two arguments given are @samp{am
i}, as in @samp{who am i}.
@vindex TZ
Time stamps are listed according to the time zone rules specified by
the @env{TZ} environment variable, or by the system default rules if
@env{TZ} is not set. @xref{TZ Variable,, Specifying the Time Zone
with @env{TZ}, libc, The GNU C Library}.
The program accepts the following options. Also see @ref{Common options}.
@table @samp
@@ -11329,6 +11363,12 @@ it with a default format that depends on the @env{LC_TIME} locale category.
In the default C locale, this format is @samp{'+%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y'},
so the output looks like @samp{Fri Feb 27 13:47:51 PST 2004}.
@vindex TZ
Normally, @command{date} uses the time zone rules indicated by the
@env{TZ} environment variable, or the system default rules if @env{TZ}
is not set. @xref{TZ Variable,, Specifying the Time Zone with
@env{TZ}, libc, The GNU C Library}.
@findex strftime @r{and @command{date}}
@cindex time formats
@cindex formatting times
@@ -11688,10 +11728,10 @@ Set the time and date to @var{datestr}. See @option{-d} above.
@cindex UTC
@cindex Greenwich Mean Time
@cindex GMT
@vindex TZ
Use Coordinated Universal Time (@acronym{UTC}) by operating as if the
@env{TZ} environment variable were set to the string @samp{UTC0}.
Normally, @command{date} operates in the time zone indicated by
@env{TZ}, or the system default if @env{TZ} is not set. Coordinated
Coordinated
Universal Time is often called ``Greenwich Mean Time'' (@sc{gmt}) for
historical reasons.
@end table