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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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