svn commit: r337334 - head/lib/libc/sys

Conrad Meyer cem at FreeBSD.org
Sat Aug 4 22:08:25 UTC 2018


Author: cem
Date: Sat Aug  4 22:08:24 2018
New Revision: 337334
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/337334

Log:
  settimeofday(2): Remove stale note about timezone
  
  Contrary to the removed comment, the kernel does appear to use the timezone
  argument of settimeofday.  The comment dates to the BSD4.4 import; I assume it
  is just stale.

Modified:
  head/lib/libc/sys/gettimeofday.2

Modified: head/lib/libc/sys/gettimeofday.2
==============================================================================
--- head/lib/libc/sys/gettimeofday.2	Sat Aug  4 21:57:17 2018	(r337333)
+++ head/lib/libc/sys/gettimeofday.2	Sat Aug  4 22:08:24 2018	(r337334)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"     @(#)gettimeofday.2	8.2 (Berkeley) 5/26/95
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd December 27, 2015
+.Dd August 4, 2018
 .Dt GETTIMEOFDAY 2
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -44,11 +44,6 @@
 .Ft int
 .Fn settimeofday "const struct timeval *tp" "const struct timezone *tzp"
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Bf -symbolic
-Note: timezone is no longer used; this information is kept outside
-the kernel.
-.Ef
-.Pp
 The system's notion of the current Greenwich time and the current time
 zone is obtained with the
 .Fn gettimeofday


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