* manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): glibc no longer comes with tzdata.

Problem reported by J William Piggott.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index cde2c5a..540e997 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2015-02-16  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+       * manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): glibc no longer comes with tzdata.
+       Problem reported by J William Piggott.
+
 2015-02-16  Joseph Myers  <joseph@codesourcery.com>
 
        [BZ #17978]

diff --git a/manual/time.texi b/manual/time.texi
index c8c7288..f94cbe4 100644 (file)
--- a/manual/time.texi
+++ b/manual/time.texi
@@ -2520,7 +2520,8 @@ subdirectories for geographical areas; for example,
 @file{America/New_York}, @file{Europe/London}, @file{Asia/Hong_Kong}.
 These data files are installed by the system administrator, who also
 sets @file{/etc/localtime} to point to the data file for the local time
-zone.  @Theglibc{} comes with a large database of time zone
+zone.  The files typically come from the @url{http://www.iana.org/time-zones,
+Time Zone Database} of time zone and daylight saving time
 information for most regions of the world, which is maintained by a
 community of volunteers and put in the public domain.