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misc/49221: Information lost in man page zic.8
>Number: 49221
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: Information lost in man page zic.8
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: misc-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Sep 19 13:05:00 +0000 2014
>Originator: Henning Petersen
>Release: NetBSD-current
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
Information lost dash without information.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
diff -u -p -r1.23 zic.8
--- lib/libc/time/zic.8 15 Aug 2014 11:04:07 -0000 1.23
+++ lib/libc/time/zic.8 18 Sep 2014 10:18:24 -0000
@@ -55,37 +55,44 @@ You can use this option to generate SVVS
.It Fl v
Be more verbose, and complain about the following situations:
.Bl -dash
-.It The input data specifies a link to a link.
-.It A year that appears in a data file is outside the range
-.It A time of 24:00 or more appears in the input.
+.It
+The input data specifies a link to a link.
+.It
+A year that appears in a data file is outside the range
+.It
+A time of 24:00 or more appears in the input.
Pre-1998 versions of
.Xr zic 8
prohibit 24:00, and pre-2007 versions prohibit times greater than 24:00.
-.It A rule goes past the start or end of the month.
+.It
+A rule goes past the start or end of the month.
Pre-2004 versions of
.Xr zic 8
prohibit this.
-.It The output file does not contain all the information about the
+.It
+The output file does not contain all the information about the
long-term future of a zone, because the future cannot be summarized as
an extended POSIX TZ string.
For example, as of 2013 this problem
occurs for Iran's daylight-saving rules for the predicted future, as
these rules are based on the Iranian calendar, which cannot be
represented.
-.It The output contains data that may not be handled properly by client
+.It
+The output contains data that may not be handled properly by client
code designed for older
.Xr zic 8
output formats.
These compatibility issues affect only time stamps
before 1970 or after the start of 2038.
-.It A time zone abbreviation has fewer than 3 characters.
+.It
+A time zone abbreviation has fewer than 3 characters.
POSIX requires at least 3.
-.It An output file name contains a byte that is not an ASCII letter,
+.It
+An output file name contains a byte that is not an ASCII letter,
.Dq - ,
.Dq / ,
or
.Dq _ ;
-or it
or it contains a file name component that contains more than 14 bytes
or that starts with
.Dq - .
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