* zdump.8, NEWS: Document zdump -c's treatment of years better.

(Problem reported by Arthur David Olson.)
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Paul Eggert
2014-09-06 17:42:00 -07:00
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@@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
An access to uninitalized data has been fixed.
(Thanks to Jörg Richter for reporting the problem.)
Changes affecting documentation and commentary
zdump -c's treatment of years is now documented to use the
Gregorian calendar and Universal Time without leap seconds.
(Thanks to Arthur David Olson for reporting the problem.)
Release 2014g - 2014-08-28 12:31:23 -0700
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@@ -45,14 +45,17 @@ This generates output that is easier to compare to that of
implementations with different time representations.
.TP
.BI "\*-c " [loyear,]hiyear
Cut off verbose output near the start of the given year(s).
Cut off verbose output at the start of the given year(s).
Cutoff times are computed using the Gregorian calendar and Universal
Time (UT) ignoring leap seconds.
By default,
the program cuts off verbose output near the starts of the years
the program cuts off verbose output at the starts of the years
\-500 and 2500.
.TP
.BI "\*-t " [lotime,]hitime
Cut off verbose output at the start of the given time(s),
given in decimal seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC.
given in decimal seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
.SH LIMITATIONS
Time discontinuities are found by sampling the results returned by localtime
at twelve-hour intervals.