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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2015-02-16 15:31:57 -0800
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2015-02-16 15:32:34 -0800
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parenta820f9b3c0cb5e80cd892b0f9c1c48f48bd4413f (diff)
* manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): glibc no longer comes with tzdata.
Problem reported by J William Piggott.
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@@ -2520,7 +2520,8 @@ 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. The files typically come from the @url{http://www.iana.org/time-zones,
+Time Zone Database} of time zone and daylight saving time
information for most regions of the world, which is maintained by a
community of volunteers and put in the public domain.