[systemd-devel] [PATCH 2/2] man: remove timezone(5) and add localtime(5)

Shawn Landden shawnlandden at gmail.com
Tue Aug 21 23:09:04 PDT 2012


---
 Makefile.am                        |    2 +-
 man/localtime.xml                  |   93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 man/timezone.xml                   |   90 ----------------------------------
 units/systemd-timedated.service.in |    2 +-
 4 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 man/localtime.xml
 delete mode 100644 man/timezone.xml

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index e6bfc1f..1996956 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ MANPAGES = \
 	man/systemd.conf.5 \
 	man/tmpfiles.d.5 \
 	man/hostname.5 \
-	man/timezone.5 \
+	man/localtime.5 \
 	man/machine-id.5 \
 	man/locale.conf.5 \
 	man/os-release.5 \
diff --git a/man/localtime.xml b/man/localtime.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..09df161
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/localtime.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*-->
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/xhtml/docbook.xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
+        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
+
+<!--
+  This file is part of systemd.
+
+  Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
+  Copyright 2012 Shawn Landden
+
+  systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+  under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
+  (at your option) any later version.
+
+  systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+  WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+  Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+  along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+-->
+
+<refentry id="localtime">
+        <refentryinfo>
+                <title>/etc/localtime</title>
+                <productname>systemd</productname>
+
+                <authorgroup>
+                        <author>
+                                <contrib>Developer</contrib>
+                                <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
+                                <surname>Poettering</surname>
+                                <email>lennart at poettering.net</email>
+                        </author>
+                        <author>
+                                <contrib>Developer</contrib>
+                                <firstname>Shawn</firstname>
+                                <surname>Landden</surname>
+                                <email>shawnlandden at gmail.com</email>
+                        </author>
+                </authorgroup>
+        </refentryinfo>
+
+        <refmeta>
+                <refentrytitle>localtime</refentrytitle>
+                <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
+        </refmeta>
+
+        <refnamediv>
+                <refname>localtime</refname>
+                <refpurpose>Local time zone configuration file</refpurpose>
+        </refnamediv>
+
+        <refsynopsisdiv>
+                <para><filename>/etc/localtime</filename> -> <filename>/usr/share/zoneinfo/…</filename></para>
+        </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+        <refsect1>
+                <title>Description</title>
+
+                <para>The <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> file
+                configures the system-wide time zone of the local
+                system that is used by applications for presentation
+                to the user. It should be an absolute symbolic link
+                with a destination of <filename>/usr/share/zoneinfo/</filename>,
+                fallowed by a time zone identifier such as
+                <literal>Europe/Berlin</literal> or <literal>Etc/UTC</literal>.
+                The resulting link should point to the corresponding binary
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>tzfile</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                time zone data for the configured time zone.</para>
+
+                <para>As the time zone identifier is extracted from the name of
+                the target of <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> this file may
+                not be a normal file or hardlink.</para>
+
+                <para>The time zone may be overridden for individual
+                programs by using the TZ environment variable. See
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>environ</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
+        </refsect1>
+
+        <refsect1>
+                  <title>See Also</title>
+                  <para>
+                          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>tzset</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>localtime</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                  </para>
+        </refsect1>
+
+</refentry>
diff --git a/man/timezone.xml b/man/timezone.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index dedb7d9..0000000
--- a/man/timezone.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,90 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*-->
-<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/xhtml/docbook.xsl"?>
-<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
-        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
-
-<!--
-  This file is part of systemd.
-
-  Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
-
-  systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
-  under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
-  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
-  (at your option) any later version.
-
-  systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
-  WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
-  Lesser General Public License for more details.
-
-  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
-  along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
--->
-
-<refentry id="timezone">
-        <refentryinfo>
-                <title>/etc/timezone</title>
-                <productname>systemd</productname>
-
-                <authorgroup>
-                        <author>
-                                <contrib>Developer</contrib>
-                                <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
-                                <surname>Poettering</surname>
-                                <email>lennart at poettering.net</email>
-                        </author>
-                </authorgroup>
-        </refentryinfo>
-
-        <refmeta>
-                <refentrytitle>timezone</refentrytitle>
-                <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
-        </refmeta>
-
-        <refnamediv>
-                <refname>timezone</refname>
-                <refpurpose>Local time zone configuration file</refpurpose>
-        </refnamediv>
-
-        <refsynopsisdiv>
-                <para><filename>/etc/timezone</filename></para>
-        </refsynopsisdiv>
-
-        <refsect1>
-                <title>Description</title>
-
-                <para>The <filename>/etc/timezone</filename> file
-                configures the system-wide time zone of the local
-                system that is used by applications for presentation
-                to the user. It should contain a single
-                newline-terminated line consisting of a time zone
-                identifier such as
-                <literal>Europe/Berlin</literal>. The file
-                <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> corresponds with
-                <filename>/etc/timezone</filename> and contains the
-                binary time zone data for the time zone. These files
-                should always be changed simultaneously and kept in
-                sync.</para>
-
-                <para>The time zone may be overridden for individual
-                programs by using the TZ environment variable. See
-                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>environ</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
-        </refsect1>
-
-        <refsect1>
-                <title>History</title>
-
-                <para>The simple configuration file format of
-                <filename>/etc/timezone</filename> originates from
-                Debian GNU/Linux.</para>
-        </refsect1>
-
-        <refsect1>
-                  <title>See Also</title>
-                  <para>
-                          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
-                  </para>
-        </refsect1>
-
-</refentry>
diff --git a/units/systemd-timedated.service.in b/units/systemd-timedated.service.in
index 1944a71..dd3eb1b 100644
--- a/units/systemd-timedated.service.in
+++ b/units/systemd-timedated.service.in
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 [Unit]
 Description=Time & Date Service
-Documentation=man:systemd-timedated.service(8) man:timezone(5)
+Documentation=man:systemd-timedated.service(8) man:localtime(5)
 Documentation=http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/timedated
 
 [Service]
-- 
1.7.9.5



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