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| author | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2020-09-29 09:30:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2020-09-30 10:30:03 +0200 |
| commit | 7fd897c51ceaa3ff5760025598387ad1208498cf (patch) | |
| tree | 277d38589b8814cd0c6266db942eb526dce3045a /man/homectl.xml | |
| parent | man: adjustments in file-hierarchy(7) (diff) | |
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man: explain why TZ=: is used
Also, reword the description a bit. "As a string" is meaningless in the context
of commandline arguments, where evyrything is a string. This is not a
strongly-typed programming language where 5 is a number but "5" is something
completely different. Here both 5 and "5" are indistinguishable. The original
text was trying to say that a location name should be given and not a number,
so say "time zone location name".
For #17177.
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diff --git a/man/homectl.xml b/man/homectl.xml index dd16e47beb..732b7511ad 100644 --- a/man/homectl.xml +++ b/man/homectl.xml @@ -299,11 +299,13 @@ <varlistentry> <term><option>--timezone=</option><replaceable>TIMEZONE</replaceable></term> - <listitem><para>Takes a timezone specification as string that sets the timezone for the specified - user. Expects a `tzdata` location string. When the user logs in the <varname>$TZ</varname> - environment variable is initialized from this setting. Example: - <option>--timezone=Europe/Amsterdam</option> will result in the environment variable - <literal>TZ=:Europe/Amsterdam</literal>.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Takes a time zone location name that sets the timezone for the specified user. When + the user logs in the <varname>$TZ</varname> environment variable is initialized from this + setting. Example: <option>--timezone=Europe/Amsterdam</option> will result in the environment + variable <literal>TZ=:Europe/Amsterdam</literal>. (<literal>:</literal> is used intentionally as part + of the timezone specification, see + <citerefentry><refentrytitle>tzset</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.) + </para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |