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| author | Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky@gmail.com> | 2017-01-12 18:17:23 (GMT) |
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| committer | Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky@gmail.com> | 2017-01-12 18:17:23 (GMT) |
| commit | f810d041dcf65dce04ed6851470f316057be5dd9 (patch) | |
| tree | a81b624a66458fe9976305b4b4fac679e7b2dbd8 /Doc/library | |
| parent | a16825a74a4bfd587993e7320cde3b5391f548a0 (diff) | |
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Closes #28130: Documented that time.tzset() updates time module globals.
Thanks Greg Bengeult for the patch.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/time.rst b/Doc/library/time.rst index ae17f6f..6ef02b7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/time.rst +++ b/Doc/library/time.rst @@ -594,8 +594,13 @@ The module defines the following functions and data items: .. function:: tzset() - Resets the time conversion rules used by the library routines. The environment - variable :envvar:`TZ` specifies how this is done. + Reset the time conversion rules used by the library routines. The environment + variable :envvar:`TZ` specifies how this is done. It will also set the variables + ``tzname`` (from the :envvar:`TZ` environment variable), ``timezone`` (non-DST + seconds West of UTC), ``altzone`` (DST seconds west of UTC) and ``daylight`` + (to 0 if this timezone does not have any daylight saving time rules, or to + nonzero if there is a time, past, present or future when daylight saving time + applies). Availability: Unix. |