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| -rw-r--r-- | sys/man/2/ctime | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | sys/man/2/tmdate | 7 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sys/man/2/ctime b/sys/man/2/ctime index 5bb1cefd2..b82dda65b 100644 --- a/sys/man/2/ctime +++ b/sys/man/2/ctime @@ -128,3 +128,6 @@ Daylight Savings Time is ``normal'' in the Southern hemisphere. These routines are not equipped to handle non-\c .SM ASCII text, and are provincial anyway. +.br +These routines may garble the date when passed a date parsed with +.IR tmparse (2). diff --git a/sys/man/2/tmdate b/sys/man/2/tmdate index ca2161795..f412971a8 100644 --- a/sys/man/2/tmdate +++ b/sys/man/2/tmdate @@ -275,6 +275,13 @@ Checking the timezone name against the local timezone is a dirty hack. The same date string may parse differently for people in different timezones. .PP +Tmparse and ctime don't mix. +Tmparse preserves timezone names, including names like '+0200'. +Ctime expects timezone names to be exactly three characters. +Use the +.I %τ +format character instead of ctime. +.PP The timezone information that we ship is out of date. .PP The Plan 9 timezone format has no way to express leap seconds. |