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authorbrian <brian@FreeBSD.org>1997-08-18 20:27:17 +0000
committerbrian <brian@FreeBSD.org>1997-08-18 20:27:17 +0000
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Hint at how to use TZ.
Submitted by: grog@lemis.com
-rw-r--r--bin/date/date.17
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diff --git a/bin/date/date.1 b/bin/date/date.1
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+++ b/bin/date/date.1
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)date.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/28/95
-.\" $Id: date.1,v 1.14 1997/08/09 22:34:03 brian Exp $
+.\" $Id: date.1,v 1.15 1997/08/10 16:36:58 brian Exp $
.\"
.Dd November 17, 1993
.Dt DATE 1
@@ -249,6 +249,11 @@ is affected by the following evironment variables:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Ev TZ
The timezone to use when displaying dates.
+The normal format is a pathname relative to
+.Dq Pa /usr/share/zoneinfo .
+For example, the command
+.Dq TZ=America/Los_Angeles date
+displays the current time in California.
See
.Xr environ 7
for more information.
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