>From 048ef17900f41aaa75b036cc819cba8fc9b6bc9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 13:48:16 -0700
Subject: [PROPOSED PATCH] Document TZ=<...> in newtzset.3

Problem reported by Alexander Belopolsky in
http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-August/023926.html
* newtzset.3 (DESCRIPTION): Document angle brackets in TZ value.
---
 newtzset.3 | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/newtzset.3 b/newtzset.3
index 62277f7..c3e22dc 100644
--- a/newtzset.3
+++ b/newtzset.3
@@ -128,6 +128,13 @@ ASCII minus
 ASCII plus
 .RB ( + ),
 and NUL bytes are allowed.
+Alternatively, a designation can be surrounded by angle brackets
+.B <
+and
+.BR > ;
+in this case, the designation can contain any characters other than
+.B >
+and NUL.
 .TP
 .I offset
 Indicates the value one must add to the local time to arrive at
-- 
2.7.4