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| author | Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> | 2010-01-16 19:23:49 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2010-01-16 19:23:49 +0100 |
| commit | f37678fe3358e7189a12a1394da9317370f85d44 (patch) | |
| tree | b3cf8e85b8a766d791d454c0f881d4af5a8bece7 /man3/strftime.3 | |
| parent | 750d65df7db4c8778b913042687a18962c36e28e (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-f37678fe3358e7189a12a1394da9317370f85d44.tar.gz | |
strftime.3: Clarification of %z specifier
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | man3/strftime.3 | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man3/strftime.3 b/man3/strftime.3 index 8534d33536..0c77998132 100644 --- a/man3/strftime.3 +++ b/man3/strftime.3 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ .\" 2005-11-22 mtk, added Glibc Notes covering optional 'flag' and .\" 'width' components of conversion specifications. .\" -.TH STRFTIME 3 2009-09-28 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH STRFTIME 3 2010-01-17 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME strftime \- format date and time .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -242,7 +242,11 @@ The year as a decimal number without a century (range 00 to 99). The year as a decimal number including the century. .TP .B %z -The timezone as hour offset from UTC. +The +.I +hhmm +or +.I -hhmm +numeric timezone (that is, the hour and minute offset from UTC). Required to emit RFC\ 822-conformant dates (using "%a,\ %d\ %b\ %Y\ %H:%M:%S\ %z"). (GNU) .TP |