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Subject: Re: the tzset tool does not match the man description
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On Apr 28 17:55, marco atzeri wrote:
> On 4/28/2012 5:29 PM, rodmedina AT cantv DOT 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

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