>From 2fab66aa164365209e47af24b2337b7c2ffdbe5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 22:03:06 -0700
Subject: [PROPOSED PATCH] Document zic's standard time + SAVE behavior

* zic.8: Say that only the sum matters when adding standard
time to daylight-saving offsets.
---
 zic.8 | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/zic.8 b/zic.8
index b8aaa42..cf78ae3 100644
--- a/zic.8
+++ b/zic.8
@@ -299,6 +299,12 @@ field
 and
 .B s
 suffixes are not used).
+Only the sum of standard time and this amount matters; for example,
+.I zic
+does not distinguish a 10:30 standard time plus an 0:30
+.B SAVE
+from a 10:00 standard time plus a 1:00
+.BR SAVE .
 .TP
 .B LETTER/S
 Gives the
@@ -357,6 +363,8 @@ alternately, an amount of time to add to local standard time.
 If this field is
 .B \*-
 then standard time always applies in the time zone.
+When an amount of time is given, only the sum of standard time and
+this amount matters.
 .TP
 .B FORMAT
 The format for time zone abbreviations in this time zone.
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