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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2015-02-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): glibc no longer comes with tzdata. + Problem reported by J William Piggott. + 2015-02-16 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> [BZ #17978] diff --git a/manual/time.texi b/manual/time.texi index c8c728886d..f94cbe4887 100644 --- a/manual/time.texi +++ b/manual/time.texi @@ -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. |