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| author | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2017-02-09 16:09:03 +0100 |
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| committer | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2017-02-09 16:09:03 +0100 |
| commit | 2a1d833d5da7fa7a01a2eef183b0a208ed019427 (patch) | |
| tree | 8da3ebb695ae55c69d0a58691403fb13d96a9476 /Doc/library/time.rst | |
| parent | c6180bb73c8c7c7f9d8ea9816487b710597b6fc1 (diff) | |
| parent | bbd3587a29510bd5a318e0a19fc8570c0cd3b622 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-2a1d833d5da7fa7a01a2eef183b0a208ed019427.tar.gz | |
Merge issue #26355 fix from 3.6
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diff --git a/Doc/library/time.rst b/Doc/library/time.rst index ae17f6f4f0..6ef02b7403 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. |