From fef27b6086b22784e44281bfb3ec712cf258af65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 17:42:00 -0700 Subject: [PROPOSED PATCH] * zdump.8, NEWS: Document zdump -c's treatment of years better. (Problem reported by Arthur David Olson.) --- NEWS | 6 ++++++ zdump.8 | 9 ++++++--- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6955f70..53ec202 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes An access to uninitalized data has been fixed. (Thanks to Jörg Richter for reporting the problem.) + Changes affecting documentation and commentary + + zdump -c's treatment of years is now documented to use the + Gregorian calendar and Universal Time without leap seconds. + (Thanks to Arthur David Olson for reporting the problem.) + Release 2014g - 2014-08-28 12:31:23 -0700 diff --git a/zdump.8 b/zdump.8 index 94de021..7f0bc78 100644 --- a/zdump.8 +++ b/zdump.8 @@ -45,14 +45,17 @@ This generates output that is easier to compare to that of implementations with different time representations. .TP .BI "\*-c " [loyear,]hiyear -Cut off verbose output near the start of the given year(s). +Cut off verbose output at the start of the given year(s). +Cutoff times are computed using the Gregorian calendar and Universal +Time (UT) ignoring leap seconds. By default, -the program cuts off verbose output near the starts of the years +the program cuts off verbose output at the starts of the years \-500 and 2500. .TP .BI "\*-t " [lotime,]hitime Cut off verbose output at the start of the given time(s), -given in decimal seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. +given in decimal seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). .SH LIMITATIONS Time discontinuities are found by sampling the results returned by localtime at twelve-hour intervals. -- 1.9.1