Your message dated Thu, 9 Nov 2023 15:15:55 -0500
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and subject line Re: Bug#1055666: coreutils: date man page does not have an
ENVIRONMENT section mentioning TZ
has caused the Debian Bug report #1055666,
regarding coreutils: date man page does not have an ENVIRONMENT section
mentioning TZ
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Package: coreutils
Version: 8.32-4+b1
Severity: minor
Hi,
I notice that the date(1) man page has no ENVIRONMENT section.
It would be useful to have an ENVIRONMENT section that documents
the effect of the TZ variable on the date output.
Note that there is an example of using TZ in the EXAMPLES section.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.8
APT prefers oldstable-security
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-26-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.53-10
ii libattr1 1:2.4.48-6
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u7
ii libgmp10 2:6.2.1+dfsg-1+deb11u1
ii libselinux1 3.1-3
coreutils recommends no packages.
coreutils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 01:50:03PM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
I notice that the date(1) man page has no ENVIRONMENT section.
Because there's nothing really specific to the date command vs anything
else on the system that uses TZ. See environ(7) for an overview of
generic system environment variables. The full manual also covers the
use of timezones in more detail than really makes sense for a man page:
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Specifying-time-zone-rules.html
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