Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:07:43 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: the tzset tool does not match the man description
Message-ID: <20120428180743.GB23030@calimero.vinschen.de>
Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
References: <826446310.190743.1335626969325.JavaMail.gess@webmail-03.datacenter.cha.cantv.net> <4F9C12EF.2090106@gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <4F9C12EF.2090106@gmail.com>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com

On Apr 28 17:55, marco atzeri wrote:
> On 4/28/2012 5:29 PM, rodmedina@cantv.net wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >It seems to me that the behavior of the tzset tool does not
> >match the description given in the man pages.
> >Apparently  the tzset tool which is part  of the cygwin  pckage
> >is different from the one described in the man pages. I
> >think that this is a confusing situation. If I am right,
> >I think that the cygwin maintainers should changing
> >the name of the tzset tool to something else (tzget ?).
> >
> >greetings
> >
> >RM
> >
> 
> tzset tool has no man page.
> (no /usr/share/man/man1/tzset.1.gz )
> 
> 
> what you see with "man tzset" is the man of the newlib tzset
> function
> /usr/share/man/man3/tzset.3.gz

And here's the description of the tzset command:

  http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#tzset


Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple