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diff --git a/unused/tzfile.5.txt b/unused/tzfile.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..953851233d6c --- /dev/null +++ b/unused/tzfile.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +NAME + + tzfile - time zone information + +SYNOPSIS + #include <tzfile.h> + +DESCRIPTION + The time zone information files used by tzset(3) begin with + the magic characters "TZif" to identify then as time zone + information files, followed by a character identifying the + version of the file's format (as of 2005, either an ASCII + NUL or a '2') followed by fifteen bytes containing zeroes + reserved for future use, followed by six four-byte values of + type long, written in a ``standard'' byte order (the high- + order byte of the value is written first). These values + are, in order: + + tzh_ttisgmtcnt + The number of UTC/local indicators stored in the file. + + tzh_ttisstdcnt + The number of standard/wall indicators stored in the + file. + + tzh_leapcnt + The number of leap seconds for which data is stored in + the file. + + tzh_timecnt + The number of "transition times" for which data is + stored in the file. + + tzh_typecnt + The number of "local time types" for which data is + stored in the file (must not be zero). + + tzh_charcnt + The number of characters of "time zone abbreviation + strings" stored in the file. + + The above header is followed by tzh_timecnt four-byte values + of type long, sorted in ascending order. These values are + written in ``standard'' byte order. Each is used as a + transition time (as returned by time(2)) at which the rules + for computing local time change. Next come tzh_timecnt one- + byte values of type unsigned char; each one tells which of + the different types of ``local time'' types described in the + file is associated with the same-indexed transition time. + These values serve as indices into an array of ttinfo + structures (with tzh_typecnt entries) that appears next in + the file; these structures are defined as follows: + + struct ttinfo { + long tt_gmtoff; + int tt_isdst; + unsigned int tt_abbrind; + }; + + Each structure is written as a four-byte value for tt_gmtoff + of type long, in a standard byte order, followed by a one- + byte value for tt_isdst and a one-byte value for tt_abbrind. + In each structure, tt_gmtoff gives the number of seconds to + be added to UTC, tt_isdst tells whether tm_isdst should be + set by localtime (3) and tt_abbrind serves as an index into + the array of time zone abbreviation characters that follow + the ttinfo structure(s) in the file. + + Then there are tzh_leapcnt pairs of four-byte values, + written in standard byte order; the first value of each pair + gives the time (as returned by time(2)) at which a leap + second occurs; the second gives the total number of leap + seconds to be applied after the given time. The pairs of + values are sorted in ascending order by time. + + Then there are tzh_ttisstdcnt standard/wall indicators, each + stored as a one-byte value; they tell whether the transition + times associated with local time types were specified as + standard time or wall clock time, and are used when a time + zone file is used in handling POSIX-style time zone + environment variables. + + Finally there are tzh_ttisgmtcnt UTC/local indicators, each + stored as a one-byte value; they tell whether the transition + times associated with local time types were specified as UTC + or local time, and are used when a time zone file is used in + handling POSIX-style time zone environment variables. + + Localtime uses the first standard-time ttinfo structure in + the file (or simply the first ttinfo structure in the + absence of a standard-time structure) if either tzh_timecnt + is zero or the time argument is less than the first + transition time recorded in the file. + + For version-2-format time zone files, the above header and + data is followed by a second header and data, identical in + format except that eight bytes are used for each transition + time or leap second time. After the second header and data + comes a newline-enclosed, POSIX-TZ-environment-variable- + style string for use in handling instants after the last + transition time stored in the file (with nothing between the + newlines if there is no POSIX representation for such + instants). + +SEE ALSO + newctime(3) |
