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Update timezone file description to match new zic (coming soon).

Update man page to reflect reality.
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Garrett Wollman 1999-01-21 17:18:06 +00:00
parent 22c654616a
commit 7807f372ee
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00
svn path=/vendor/tzcode/dist/; revision=42986
2 changed files with 28 additions and 10 deletions

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@ -7,14 +7,19 @@ tzfile \- time zone information
.SH DESCRIPTION
The time zone information files used by
.IR tzset (3)
begin with bytes reserved for future use,
followed by four four-byte values of type
begin with the magic characters "TZif" to identify then as
time zone information files,
followed by sixteen bytes reserved for future use,
followed by six four-byte values of type
.BR long ,
written in a ``standard'' byte order
(the high-order byte of the value is written first).
These values are,
in order:
.TP
.I tzh_ttisgmtcnt
The number of UTC/local indicators stored in the file.
.TP
.I tzh_ttisstdcnt
The number of standard/wall indicators stored in the file.
.TP
@ -74,7 +79,7 @@ and a one-byte value for
.IR tt_abbrind .
In each structure,
.I tt_gmtoff
gives the number of seconds to be added to GMT,
gives the number of seconds to be added to UTC,
.I tt_isdst
tells whether
.I tm_isdst
@ -99,7 +104,7 @@ the second gives the
number of leap seconds to be applied after the given time.
The pairs of values are sorted in ascending order by time.
.PP
Finally there are
Then there are
.I tzh_ttisstdcnt
standard/wall indicators, each stored as a one-byte value;
they tell whether the transition times associated with local time types
@ -107,6 +112,14 @@ were specified as standard time or wall clock time,
and are used when a time zone file is used in handling POSIX-style
time zone environment variables.
.PP
Finally there are
.I tzh_ttisgmtcnt
UTC/local indicators, each stored as a one-byte value;
they tell whether the transition times associated with local time types
were specified as UTC or local time,
and are used when a time zone file is used in handling POSIX-style
time zone environment variables.
.PP
.I Localtime
uses the first standard-time
.I ttinfo
@ -120,4 +133,6 @@ is zero or the time argument is less than the first transition time recorded
in the file.
.SH SEE ALSO
newctime(3)
.\" @(#)tzfile.5 7.2
.\" @(#)tzfile.5 7.11
.\" This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
.\" 1996-06-05 by Arthur David Olson (arthur_david_olson@nih.gov).

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@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
/*
** This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
** June 5, 1996 by Arthur David Olson (arthur_david_olson@nih.gov).
** 1996-06-05 by Arthur David Olson (arthur_david_olson@nih.gov).
*/
/*
@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
#ifndef lint
#ifndef NOID
static char tzfilehid[] = "@(#)tzfile.h 7.8";
static char tzfilehid[] = "@(#)tzfile.h 7.14";
#endif /* !defined NOID */
#endif /* !defined lint */
@ -45,8 +45,11 @@ static char tzfilehid[] = "@(#)tzfile.h 7.8";
** Each file begins with. . .
*/
#define TZ_MAGIC "TZif"
struct tzhead {
char tzh_reserved[20]; /* reserved for future use */
char tzh_magic[4]; /* TZ_MAGIC */
char tzh_reserved[16]; /* reserved for future use */
char tzh_ttisgmtcnt[4]; /* coded number of trans. time flags */
char tzh_ttisstdcnt[4]; /* coded number of trans. time flags */
char tzh_leapcnt[4]; /* coded number of leap seconds */
@ -61,7 +64,7 @@ struct tzhead {
** tzh_timecnt (char [4])s coded transition times a la time(2)
** tzh_timecnt (unsigned char)s types of local time starting at above
** tzh_typecnt repetitions of
** one (char [4]) coded GMT offset in seconds
** one (char [4]) coded UTC offset in seconds
** one (unsigned char) used to set tm_isdst
** one (unsigned char) that's an abbreviation list index
** tzh_charcnt (char)s '\0'-terminated zone abbreviations
@ -74,7 +77,7 @@ struct tzhead {
** if absent, transition times are
** assumed to be wall clock time
** tzh_ttisgmtcnt (char)s indexed by type; if TRUE, transition
** time is GMT, if FALSE,
** time is UTC, if FALSE,
** transition time is local time
** if absent, transition times are
** assumed to be local time