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authorGreg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>2022-03-30 03:55:28 +0000
committerGreg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>2022-03-30 03:55:28 +0000
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diff --git a/bin/date/date.1 b/bin/date/date.1
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+++ b/bin/date/date.1
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ Everything but the minutes is optional.
.Pp
.Nm
understands the time zone definitions in the
-.Nm tzdata
+.Sy tzdata
package located in
.Pa /usr/share/zoneinfo .
Time changes for Daylight Saving Time, standard time, leap seconds
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ exists, it is interpreted as a time zone definition file, usually in
the directory hierarchy
.Pa /usr/share/zoneinfo ,
which contains the time zone definitions from the
-.Nm tzdata
+.Sy tzdata
package.
.Pp
If the environment variable
@@ -386,12 +386,12 @@ included the
.Fl t
(set negative time zone offset) options, but these details are now
handled automatically by
-.Nm tzdata .
+.Sy tzdata .
Modern offsets are positive for time zones ahead of UTC and negative
for time zones behind UTC, but like the obsolete
-.Nm t
+.Fl t
option, the
-.Nm tzdata
+.Sy tzdata
files in the subdirectory
.Pa /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc
still use an older convention where times ahead of UTC are considered
@@ -420,9 +420,9 @@ May be omitted, in which case the default time zone is UTC.
.It Pa /usr/share/zoneinfo
Directory containing time zone information files.
.It Pa /var/log/messages
-record of the user setting the time
+Record of the user setting the time.
.It Pa /var/log/utx.log
-record of date resets and time changes
+Record of date resets and time changes.
.El
.Sh EXIT STATUS
The
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ A number of options were added and then removed again, including the
.Fl t
(set negative time zone offset).
Time zones are now handled by the
-.Nm tzdata
+.Sy tzdata
package.
.Pp
The