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Bug#328895: marked as done (xclock: man page does not document how to show the time of different timezones)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #328895,
regarding xclock: man page does not document how to show the time of different timezones
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Package: xbase-clients
Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7
Severity: minor
File: /usr/X11R6/bin/xclock
Tags: patch

I just tried to find out how to let xclock show the time of different
timezones and didn't find anything at first. Please consider the attached
patch to the xclock man page to document that you can use the TZ variable for
that.

regards
 Thorsten

--- ./xc/programs/xclock/xclock.man	2005-02-28 18:35:18.000000000 +0100
+++ ./xclock_new.man	2005-09-18 00:58:56.005911518 +0200
@@ -244,6 +244,13 @@
 .B XENVIRONMENT
 to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources
 stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
+.TP 8
+.B TZ
+to get the timezone that should be used. You may for example issue
+.IB "TZ=""Europe/London"" xclock" 
+or 
+.IB "TZ=""UTC-8"" xclock"
+to manipulate the time xclock shows. For more details see tzselect(1) and tzset(3).
 .SH FILES
 .TP
 .I __apploaddir__/XClock

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Hi! I'm closing this bug, since it was tagged "wontfix" for some
years, without answer. If you have new reasons to point out this
problem, please feel free to re-open it.

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